IMPROVING RELIGIOUS AND MORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RUSSIAN CONSTITUTION
The paper examines the religious component of the constitutional and legal policy of the modern Russian state. Consolidated in the current Russian Constitution, the liberal model of relations between the state and religions is “temporary”, according to the author. He believes it was designed to ensure the transition from the Soviet model - in which religion was pushed to the margins of public, social and cultural life - to a new model, capable of truly considering the religious factor in modern Russia’s legal system. In this regard, the paper analyses the latest full-scale constitutional and legal reform, concerning its impact on the established model of relations between religion and the state. The author also offers his original vision of the required constitutional and legal transformations.