Law
The law that applies in Russia, nearest first. Open one to read it and propose changes.
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How its law is changed
The official ways for the people it applies to, not only its legislature, to change the law here, from the provisions that set them.
A bill put before the State Duma
The President, the Federation Council, senators, deputies of the State Duma, the Government and the legislatures of the subjects of the Federation, and the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court on matters within their competence; citizens do not hold the right themselves; no number of signatures is required
- A bill that introduces or abolishes a tax, grants an exemption, issues state loans, changes the state's financial obligations or calls for spending from the federal budget can be put forward only with the Government's opinion on it
Bills are put before the State Duma.
Source: Art. 104, Constitution of the Russian Federation (ConsultantPlus's consolidated text)
A proposal to amend the Constitution
The President, the Federation Council, the State Duma, the Government, the legislatures of the subjects of the Federation, or a group of at least one fifth of the senators or of the State Duma's deputies; citizens do not hold the right themselves; no number of signatures is required
- Chapters 1, 2 and 9 cannot be revised by the Federal Assembly; a proposal to revise them supported by three fifths of all senators and deputies convenes a Constitutional Assembly (Art. 135)
- Amendments to chapters 3 to 8 are adopted in the way a federal constitutional law is, and take effect once the legislatures of at least two thirds of the subjects approve them (Art. 136)
The proposal is decided under Articles 135 and 136.
Russian Public Initiative, federal level
100,000 signatures from Citizens of the Russian Federation aged 18 or over with a SNILS number and a confirmed account on the state services portal, through which every vote is cast within 12 months
- An initiative is a proposal on the country's social and economic development or on public and municipal administration
- Moderators check it against the rules before it is put to the vote, within two months
An initiative that gathers the votes in time is sent to the federal expert working group for consideration.
Tax
No tax model for Russia yet.
Names, identifiers and sources
Official: Recorded as its sources publish it.
- Other names
- Russland (de)Russie (fr)Россия (ru)
- ISO 3166-1 country code
- RU
Sources
- Country codes: Natural Earth (public domain). Country names: Unicode CLDR, © Unicode, Inc.Retrieved 2026-11-10 · Licence: Unicode-3.0