PREAMBLE

We, the multinational people of the Russian Federation, united by a common destiny on our land, asserting human rights and liberties, civil peace and accord, preserving the historic unity of the state, proceeding from the commonly recognized principles of equality and self-determination of the peoples honoring the memory of our ancestors, who have passed on to us love of and respect for our homeland and faith in good and justice, reviving the sovereign statehood of Russia and asserting its immutable democratic foundations, striving to secure the wellbeing and prosperity of Russia and proceeding from a sense of responsibility for our homeland before the present and future generations, and being aware of ourselves as part of the world community, hereby approve the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

SECTION ONE

• Chapter 1. The Fundamentals of the Constitutional System.
• Chapter 2. The Rights and Liberties of Man and Citizen.
• Chapter 3. The Russian Federation.
• Chapter 4. The President of the Russian Federation.
• Chapter 5. The Federal Assembly.
• Chapter 6. The Government of the Russian Federation.
• Chapter 7. The Judiciary.
• Chapter 8. Local Self-Government.
• Chapter 9. Constitutional Amendments and Revisions.

SECTION TWO

• Concluding and Transitional Provisions.