The Constitution of the Russian Federation of 1993 and the problems of property rights

Abstract

The article is written on the basis of the author’s report at the XIX Annual International Scientific and Practical Conference of the Law Faculty of Moscow State University and the XV International Scientific and Practical Conference “Kutafin Readings” of the Moscow State Law Academy “Constitution of the Russian Federation and the modern law and order”. The article analyzes the genesis and content of the norms of the Constitution of the Russian Federation on property; The economic category of “form of ownership” and its differences from the legal concept of “ownership” are critically examined. The necessity of fixing the system of real rights in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and the removal of the “public servitude” construction from the Land Code, as well as the public law nature of the “national wealth” category, is shown. A general conclusion is made about the need for the development of Russian property law and the groundless use of economic concepts in civil law, and civil law concepts in public law.