Speech at Educational and Research Conference marking the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Russian Constitutions Adoption
December 12, 2008
The Kremlin, Moscow Part 2
Выступление на научно-практической конференции, посвящённой 15-летию принятия Конституции Российской Федерации
12 декабря 2008 года
Москва, Государственный Кремлёвский дворец
My second point is the freedom of economic activity guaranteed by the Constitution. The Constitution recognises and protects all forms of ownership: private, state, municipal, and it clearly states an approach that could be defined in brief as the economy serving the interests of each individuals development. Achieving these goals in full requires a full-fledged modern legal foundation. I note that the measures to help overcome administrative barriers and strengthen the position of small and medium businesses are important steps, but are nonetheless only the first steps towards fulfilling our constitutional obligations. The right to make free use of ones assets and abilities for the purposes of enterprise should be an open door for our people, an open door not just to the world of business but also to the world of creation, discovering talents and developing innovative qualities.I want to stress too that the supremacy of the law in economic activity is every bit as important as it is in other areas. Indeed, the financial crisis that has spread over these last months is in many respects the result of failing to observe this principle. Distorted perceptions of the rights and obligations of the different actors in financial relations and global economic ties have already caused huge problems in the economically developed countries. This is something we are duty bound to take into account when preparing the laws we will need for transforming Russia into one of the worlds financial centres.The third area where the laws are in need of serious development is the social sector. The state has a duty to ensure that all citizens start out with equal opportunities and to protect their basic and inalienable social rights. In proclaiming the Russian Federation a social state the Constitution states directly that our country protects peoples labour and health and that the state provides support for the family, for motherhood, fatherhood, children, and looks after the rights of the disabled and the elderly. All of these provisions exist in our countrys laws, but there are nevertheless a huge number of problems still unresolved. You know that we are attempting to resolve these problems gradually, taking into account the budgets possibilities and the current economic situation. We have been working on modernising the social sector and we will continue to do so. We will continue the national projects and continue our demographic policy measures. Ultimately, we need to achieve a new quality of social policy policies for social development. All of these objectives call for careful decisions and the full-fledged development of our legislation.Finally, I want to speak once more of the Constitutions tremendous importance for overcoming legal nihilism. Everyone in our country should know and understand its rules and values, and there should be ongoing and systematic work to explain its provisions. This is also something the conference could discuss. We like to talk about how the Constitution is a law with direct effect then let us put this principle into practice.Colleagues, I have not mentioned all the issues related to continued implementation of the Constitutions provisions. I spoke about some of these issues in my Address [to the Federal Assembly] and meetings with members of the legal community. We will most certainly continue these discussions.The Constitution is the indisputable backbone of Russias legal system, and in this respect I recall that in 1994, in the very first Presidential Address [to the Federal Assembly] the first section of the Address was about implementing the Constitutions provisions. The basic principles for lawmaking were named on that occasion: a systematic basis to legislation, an economy based on law, and unity of the legal system. All of these principles, like the Constitutions fundamental values the values of freedom, democracy and justice are just as relevant and just as much a priority for us today. Here in this hall, with lawmakers, judges, jurists and practising lawyers present, I want to stress that the Constitution must be applied in practice.When we talk about the Constitution we are thinking of the future. I said this during my Address, and I say again here that we must do everything we can to make the Constitution work. The Constitution is a fundamental document. But this does not mean that we cannot look at it with the eyes of modern people, people already living in the twenty-first century.
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