Kistrinova, O.V. Perspectives of development of federalism in Russia.

Abstract: Russia is the state with the vast territories, where people of many nations and ethnoses live. Thus, Russia has all necessary prerequisites for a federal state, taking into account both geographical and national and cultural apsects. So Russia must be a federation based upton the constitutional principles. This in turn calls for a serious reform of the federal relations the way they exist right now.