Historical truth as a category of modern constitutional law: on 2020 constitutional amendments

Abstract

 The article is devoted to the study of a number of problems associated with constitutional changes in the Russian legal order from 2020. The author proves that part 3 of Art. 67.1 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which established the legal necessity of “ensuring the protection of historical truth”, operates in conjunction with the constitutional rights to freedom of scientific creativity, freedom of thought and speech, the principle  of ideological diversity  and the democratic nature of Russian statehood. The right of citizens to their own position on historical issues and the search for their “historical truth”, which cannot be legally prescribed from the outside in the form of state-binding ideological provisions, followed from the existing constitutional regulation until the constitutional amendments of 2020 and continues to operate today due to the invariability of the chapters 1, 2 and 9 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.