Petrushev, V.A. On the legal nature of the decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and interpretation of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

Abstract: Although no one now doubts the obligatory character of the decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, there is still much discussion as to the nature of these acts. For some authors such decisions are sources of the Russian law, while the others see them as simply interpretative acts. In this article V.A. Petrushev views the judicial practice, positions of the scholars, and expresses his own opinion on the matter.