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Programs: Spotlight, 12 December, 2008

15 years of the Russian Constitution

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Chairman, Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Valery Zorkin

1943 - Born in Primorsky region
1964 - Graduates, law department, Moscow State University
1964 - Lectures on law, Moscow State University
1989 - Leads a group of legal experts working for the Soviet Constitutional Commission
1991 - Judge, Constitutional Court of Russia
1991 - Becomes first and only Chairman, Constitutional Court of Russia
2003 - Re-elected chairman, constitutional court of Russia

Today we will talk about the Russian Constitution. The Russian Federation has been living under the current Fundamental Law for 15 years. This year, the Constitution underwent the first major change to its text – the terms for the President and State Duma deputies are being extended. Do these amendments signal the beginning of a series of changes to the Constitution or will Fundamental Law remain sacrosanct? We’ll be talking about it with the chairman of the Constitutional Court, Valery Zorkin.