LEX RUSSICA CONSTITUTIONAL LAW V.I. Fadeev* CONSTITUTION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT AND STABILITY Abstract. <...> The article deals with the essence of the modern Constitution, which is manifested in its values integrating social strata and groups of the population; their implementation and development should be the main objective of any social and political forces that came to power by constitutional means. <...> Constitution is, figuratively speaking, the legal «clothing», in which the power in order not to lose its legitimacy, has to work for the benefit of the entire society, of the people, guided by the constitutional ideal of the due, basing on the sober perception of the things in existence. <...> Special attention is drawn to two interrelated problems being solved by the Constitution: to ensure the inviolability of the basic principles and foundations of the State aimed on the progressive development of the state and public life and at the same time to meet the requirements of the society, evolve taking into account some changes in social and public practice. <...> It is shown that the impact of the Constitution, protection of the constitutional values, their implementation and development in the presence of the Constitutional Court are provided more efficiently than in circumstances where the state legal system does not provide such a body. <...> In final decisions of the Constitutional Court constitutionally valuable ought, constitutional imperative are embodied, and they have an impact on law-making and law enforcement, strengthen and extend the system of guarantees of rights and freedoms of a man and a citizen. <...> Keywords: law, the Constitution, stability and development of the Constitution, essence, Lasalle, the Constitution of the Russian Federation of 1993, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, constitutionalization, the legal position of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, legal consciousness, law and order. <...> I 1 n XX century in Russia the state system lamented twice: in 1917 the death of the monarchy was the collapse of Russia itself; in 1991, the collapse of the Soviet Union also meant the collapse of the Russian state. <...> P. 6–7. © Fadeev V., 2014 * Fadeev Vladimir Ivanovich — JD, Professor, Head of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law, Moscow State University named after OE legal Kutafin, honored Worker of Higher School of Russia. [vifadeev@mail.ru] 9, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya str., 123995, Moscow, Russia. 1521 According to I. Ilyin, the main reason <...>