BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE FEDERATIVE DEVICE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
This article is devoted to the study of the federal structure of the Russian Federation and the principles of its organization. In order to consider the question of the federal structure of the Russian Federation, it is necessary to clarify the very concept of the state system. Any state, apart from its essence and social purpose, is also characterized by certain external features, which together form its form. According to the form of state structure, the unitary and federal states are distinguished. A state is a unitary state, the territory of which, for the convenience of management, is divided into administrative-territorial units that do not have independence. All these territorial units are managed from the center. In such a state, a single centralized system of state bodies is created: one parliament, one president, one government, whose authority extends to the entire territory of the state. In a unitary state, there is also a single law, a single citizenship. The federal state is a union of state entities, each of which has a certain independence. The subjects of such a union state have the same status and equal rights. The goal is to disclose the topic of the federal structure of the Russian Federation.