STABILITY AND ABSTRACTNESS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: CONSTITUTIONAL DUALISM OF THE LEGAL (FORMAL) AND ACTUAL CONSTITUTION
Background: the article deals with the research of prospects of the “live” constitution development which for last 25 years from the moment of adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation has already found some definiteness. The author considers the Basic law of Russia from the point of view of its stability and dynamism development. Objective: the author of the article intends to take part in the correspondence constitutional dialogue initiated by professor V.T. Kabyshev on the pages of Vestnik of the Saratov state law academy (2017, No. 5), to discuss significant tendencies of the development of constitutionalism in modern Russia. Methodology: in doing the research the following methods of study were used: historical, sociological, system analysis, legallistic, comparative and legal ones. Results: the article suggests the research of the problem of the formal or legal constitution correlation representing a certain standard and the legal source of the legal and actual constitution which substantially develops the constitutional text. In particular, the author has analyzed admissibility of the substantial change of the constitutional provisions without changing the constitutional text. Conclusions: the author argues that the existence and operation of the legal constitution in the changing sociocultural and historical discourse is impossible without substantial specification of constitutional and legal establishments both in the legal positions of the Constitutional Court and the standard models of the current legislation. And the last assumes the substantial verification on the part of the Constitu tional Court of the Russian Federation.