On the Question of the Place and Role of Decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Among the Sources of Russian Law

The purpose of writing the research work is the author's understanding of the place and role of decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in the system of sources of Russian law and the formulation on this basis of his own views on the analyzed problem. The main method used in writing the work is the dialectical method of cognition of the surrounding reality. In addition, a number of general and special methods of scientific cognition were used when writing the work. Thus, the historical method was used in the analysis of the historical processes of the formation of constitutional proceedings. The comparative legal method made it possible to analyze the specifics of the legal force of decisions taken by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The method of document analysis was used in the study of legal norms regulating the constitutional and legal status of decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The findings obtained during the study allow us to assert that the decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation are a source of Russian law. The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation interprets the Constitution of the Russian Federation, may recognize acts or their individual provisions as unconstitutional, which leads to the loss of force, verifies the constitutionality of laws and resolves the issue of the possibility of enforcing the decisions of interstate bodies, which indicates their high place in the hierarchy of sources of Russian law immediately after the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the Laws of the Russian Federation on amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation.