Suspension of executive acts in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation as a state coercion measure

Abstract

The article contains analysis of one of the least studied public enforcement measures which is suspension of acts of the higher official (the head of the highest executive body of the state power), executive bodies of the Russian Federation constituent entities.
The author focuses on the presidential decision to enact the public enforcement measure that is considered in the presented article, in particular, the form of the legal act of governance which implements that presidential decision, the wording of the name and the content of such a legal act is under review. It is shown that neither legislative regulation nor enforcement practice is perfect when it comes to the sphere of federal relations.
Furthermore, the presented article addresses such issues as normativity and legal certainty of decrees and orders of the Head of State which implement the presidential decision to suspend the act of the executive body of the Russian Federation constituent entities.
The historical and legal part of the subject of study is presented by statistical data that makes some corrections to the usually reported data considering the number of legal presidential acts that were mentioned.