Impact of Anti-Corruption Institutions of the Russian Administrative Reform on the Development of Constitutional Legislation

Abstract

The article highlights the main areas of impact of anti-corruption institutions and phenomena on the Russian constitutional law. First, the modern constitutional law is affected by the global political theory. Over the past decades, it has gained a strong academic potential to understand the processes of corruption. Nowadays, its negligence harms the constitutional legal science. The next important area of influence of the anti-corruption agenda on constitutional law and relevant legislation associates with the adoption of universal and regional anti-corruption conventions. Through their controlling mechanisms, they have gradually transformed domestic legislation. Furthermore, among European institutions we must mention the European Court of Human Rights and the Venice Commission which are beginning to use the terminology and characteristics of the theory of political corruption. However, special attention is paid to the cases when anti-corruption standards go through constitutional law from the Russian administrative reform. For the traditional and rather conservative domestic legal theory, this influence could be the most evident and convincing one. The examples of such influence are the institutions related to conflict of interest, declaration of assets, ensuring transparency of authorities and others. And the most important that, transforming to the constitutional legal norms and institutions, they begin to prevent political corruption, which is one of the key problems of the Russian Federation constitutional order.