. Role of federal center of Russia in changing the legal status of regional legislation.

Abstract: As the author of this article points out, equality of the subjects of the Russian Federation includes not only declaration of equality of rights and obligations of all the subjects of the Federation, but also reference to relations between the subjects and the Russian Federation itself. However, due to amendments to the Federal law “On the general principles of organization of the legislative (representative) government bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation”, which changed the way of formation of the executive bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation the above mentioned constitutional concept becomes endangered. This article contains critical analysis of the initiatives of the President of the Russian Federation, which were included into above-mentioned amendments, the author also refers to the issue of importance of regional legislation. The author then comes to a conclusion that a new way of empowering higher executive authorities of the subjects of the Russian Federation is a principle change in the Russian legal system, which may in the end lead to liquidation of regional legislation as such.