EVOLUTION OF THE RUSSIAN FEUDAL SYSTEM: POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANALYSIS 

Petukhov Alexey Valentinovich, Candidate of sociological sciences, associate professor, sub-department of regional and political sciences, Institute of history and political sciences, Mordovia State University named after N. P. Ogarev (Saransk), av_petuhov@mail.ru

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The article considers the peculiarities of Russian federative system, the main stages of its development are marked out, specificity and principles of relationship between power institutions of the centre and entities of the Russian Federation are shown.

centre, constituent entity, federalism, unitarism, centralization, decentralization, treaty, Constitution of the Russian Federation, sovereignty, conflict, reform, powers, federal area, plenipotentiary representative.