правовой нигилизм

Russia is searching for the ways of establishing civil society. One of them is to raise legal culture. This gives an opportunity to achieve a real guarantee of rights and liberties of a person as the highest value. The low level of legal conscience leads to legal nihilism, to creating the ground for lawlessness which sometimes has the character of national calamity causing great damage to the society. This creates many contradictions, eliminates the possibility of dialogue of different world views.

Introduction. The article investigates the limits of amending the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 1993. Discussion. The author examines the amendments that were made to the text of the Constitution of the Russian Federation for more than twenty years. Particular attention is paid to the amendments relating to the reorganization of the higher courts of the state. The article points to the need for careful attention to the values enshrined in the Constitution. It is concluded that the imposition of non-Russian «European system of values».