title: RUSSIAN FEDERALISM: PROBLEM OF PERIODIZATION AND MODERN DEVELOPMENT TRENDS
abstract: This article analyzes the views that exist in legal and political scientiﬁc literature on the development of federal relations in Russia during drafting the Constitution 1993 and after its adoption. The main issues in the article are to determine at what stage of the development of the federalism our state is, what trends are inherent in this stage. Without solving these issues it is impossible to fully realize a number of important tasks that legislative authorities of the Federation and of its
journal: Juridical Journal of Samara University