The state structure of the Russian Federation and its federal principles

Any state aims to effectively manage its own territory, which includes the political, economic, cultural and social interaction of the center with the regions. The state structure of the Russian Federation, one of the most important tasks of which is to preserve the integrity of a huge multinational power, is based on democratic constitutional principles of federalism.

These tasks are achieved not only by a well-established centralized management mechanism, but also by a clear organization, structuring of the territories, subjects of the federation and autonomous regions themselves. And also by the division of the whole state into constituent parts taking into account the regional specifics and the different cultural, social and religious conditions of each individual territory. The national-state structure of Russia, the consistency, consistency and thoughtfulness of its legal status, enshrined in the articles of the Constitution, contribute to a great extent to strengthening mutual understanding between the various nationalities of the country, their cohesion, and improving the democratic system of relations between regions and the center.

The state structure of any country is determined by a variety of very diverse factors: the size of the territory, the size and national composition of the population, historical and cultural traditions, the peculiarities of the political regime, etc. World experience and practice have now developed two main systems of state organization - unitary and federal. Unitarianism is an integral and mono-national form with a single constitution, legislation, citizenship and a system of state governing bodies. Parts of such a country, as a rule, are territorial administrative units (units) without any signs and attributes of statehood.

The state structure of the Russian Federation is a federal form - the most complex and branched structure of the organization of the country's territory, which includes national entities, called subjects of the federation. Each of them has its own judicial, legislative and executive power structures. The parliament of federal states, as a rule, is a bicameral system, where one of the chambers expresses and defends the interests of federal subjects.

A special position in the structure of such countries is occupied by autonomies, which are a kind of state-legal institution. Such education is provided with full self-management, which is necessary for solving various issues that require consideration of local specifics. The state structure of the Russian Federation includes one autonomous region (the Jewish) and ten autonomous districts. Also, the ramified structure of the Russian state includes 21 republics, 6 territories, 49 regions and 2 cities of federal significance (the capital and St. Petersburg).

But, going back to the autonomies, it should be noted that in any country such status is given to the territory with special national composition, economic and geographical situation, religious, historical and cultural traditions. For example, the state structure of Great Britain contains the autonomy of Northern Ireland, and Denmark includes Greenland, which has the same status. Once there were the Faroe Islands, but in 1948 they received sovereignty.

The state structure of the Russian Federation is a guarantee of equal co-existence of a multitude of peoples within a single large country and an integral element of the territorial integrity of the state.