En konstitution för ett fritt Ryssland, kallat Unionen av Ryska Republiker, efter att tyrannen och diktatorn Putin fallit.
Ett axplock från konstitutionen i fri rysk media:
Welcome to the Union of Republics of Russia A group of Russian researchers have proposed a new constitution for the post-Putin era. Meduza breaks down its key points.
The project, one of the first attempts to conceptualize a new structure for Russia after Putin, has generated widespread discussion among the Russian opposition and beyond. Meduza highlights some of the most interesting (and, in some cases, controversial) parts of the proposed constitution.
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30 republics instead of 80+ regions
Russia’s current Constitution, which was adopted in 1993 but has since been thoroughly amended, initially recognized 89 federal subjects. That number later fell to 83 after some regions merged together. Today, the document again lists 89: in 2014, lawmakers added Crimea and Sevastopol after Moscow occupied and annexed the peninsula, and in 2022, they added the four other Ukrainian regions that Russia claims to have annexed.
The new draft Constitution’s authors don’t explicitly say how many subjects will make up the Union of Republics of Russia, but it’s easy to calculate. Article 3.2 of the document states that the Chamber of Republics — the Federal Assembly’s upper chamber — will consist of 120 deputies. Further down, the same article says that “[each] republic is represented in the Upper Chamber by four deputies.” This means the Union will consist of 30 republics in total.
It’s unclear whether this change suggests the authors are anticipating a large-scale consolidation of regions or if they envision only a third of Russia’s current subjects belonging to the Union of Republics. In any case, they clarify in the document’s explanatory note that Russia’s current regions will have the right to not join the Union of Republics of Russia:
[We emphasize] that Russia’s regions have the right not to join our new federation at all. This has been excluded from the constitution as it pertains to the founding process, but we view it as wholly obvious.
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Preventing the annexation of Ukrainian territories
The procedure outlined in the draft Constitution for admitting new republics into the Union is designed to safeguard against the schemes Russia has previously used to annex Crimea and the four Ukrainian regions it claimed as its “new territories” in 2022.
Firstly, only U.N. member states are allowed to apply for membership in the Union of Republics of Russia. This means that the Union could consider a membership application from Belarus, for example, but not from Abkhazia, South Ossetia, or Palestine.
Secondly, after a membership application is approved by the Federal Assembly, the question of whether to admit a new republic must be put to a nationwide referendum, where it must receive support from a majority of citizens who have the right to vote. In other words, if voter turnout is 50 percent plus one voter, the new republic must receive 100 percent of the votes cast.
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A peaceful path to secession
Unlike the current Russian Constitution, the proposed new Constitution includes an official procedure by which republics can peacefully secede.
The secession process can be initiated by a republic’s leadership or by its citizens. In the second scenario, proponents of succession are required to gather signatures from at least 15 percent of that region’s voters and 15 percent of deputies from Citizens’ Councils.
The ultimate decision about whether to secede must be made through a republic-wide referendum. For succession to take place, it must receive support from more than 70 percent of the republic’s citizens (not just those with the right to vote). If it fails to garner the required number of votes, the republic will remain in the Union.
https://meduza.io/en/slides/welcome-to-the-union-of-republics-of-russia
