Values in Russian Constitutional Law
The article dwells on the issue of values in russian constitutional law and of their content and mutual co-ordination. the author analyzes the approaches for determination of the terms «values» ans «constitutional values» and gives his own determination for constitutional values. The issue of constitutional axiology is being actualized as never before. The pivotal elements of constitutional order and its institutions must get real but not just announced values in the eyes of politically active majority of the Russian people. The values are not the constants which are permanently determined depending on the development of the society. The values themselves and their qualities must be distinguished. Each object of the reality has an undetermined set of axiologically relevant characteristics which must be taken into account. Constitutional values can be characterized as ideas, purposes, principles and institutions formulated as the product of constitutional legislation or constitutional justice. The values are written in concrete legislative acts or constitutional justice decisions. The values are the ruling basis for the behavior of the majority of subjects of constitutional legal relationship. The issue of co-ordination of «nominal» and «real» constitutional relations can be discussed in this context. The commitment to the constitutional values must be a part of every stage of the legal social life from legislation to the execution of law.