Functional Meaning of the Elections of President of the Russian Federationin the Current Political Situation
The article is devoted to the analysis of the role and place of the presidential elections in 2018 in the political life of Russia. The author notes that in the current political situation, while maintaining the procedural significance of the presidential elections, there have been some changes in their functional content. The functions of the Presidential elections are divided by the author into constitutional and instrumental. It is considered how the strategies of candidates and the course of the election campaign contributed to the implementation of certain functions identified in the study.