Constitution of the Chechen Republic

The Constitution of the Chechen Republic (Russian: Конституция Чеченской Республики) is the basic law of the Chechen Republic. It was adopted on 23 March 2003 in referendum.

Background

Constitution of the Chechen Republic adopted on 23 March 2003. Changes in the Constitution of the Chechen Republic will affect a number of articles of the Law of the Republic, the Chechen Republic concerning the presidential elections, the term of office of the President and Parliament, as well as the provisions of the legislative bodies. It was planned to increase the terms of office of the president and members of parliament of the Chechen Republic from four to five years.

Amendmends

The need to amend and revise certain provisions of the Constitution of the Chechen Republic arose from the fact that since the adoption in March 2003 referendum on the Constitution of the Chechen Republic in the federal legislation has been a change in the matters relating to the election of the heads of subjects of the Russian Federation and some other laws. The main task was to bring the Constitution of the Chechen Republic in accordance with the basic law of the Russian Federation.

Overview

It Consists of:

Preamble
2 sections
9 chapters
112 articles

External links

Constitution of the Chechen Republic in the official website of the Head of the Republic

Regional constitutions of Russia

Federal subjects

Republics	Adygea Altai Bashkortostan Buryatia Chechnya Chuvashia Crimea Dagestan Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkaria Kalmykia Karachay-Cherkessia Karelia Khakassia Komi Mari El Mordovia North Ossetia–Alania Sakha Tatarstan Tuva Udmurtia

Krais	Altai Kamchatka Khabarovsk Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk Perm Primorsky Stavropol Zabaykalsky

Oblasts	Amur Arkhangelsk Astrakhan Belgorod Bryansk Chelyabinsk Irkutsk Ivanovo Kaliningrad Kaluga Kemerovo Kirov Kostroma Kurgan Kursk Leningrad Lipetsk Magadan Moscow Murmansk Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod Novosibirsk Omsk Orenburg Oryol Penza Pskov Rostov Ryazan Sakhalin Samara Saratov Smolensk Sverdlovsk Tambov Tomsk Tula Tver Tyumen Ulyanovsk Vladimir Volgograd Vologda Voronezh Yaroslavl

Federal cities	Moscow St. Petersburg Sevastopol

Autonomous oblast	Jewish

Autonomous okrugs	Chukotka AO Khanty-Mansi AO¹ Nenets AO² Yamalo-Nenets AO¹

¹administratively subordinated to Tyumen Oblast ²administratively subordinated to Arkhangelsk Oblast

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