The 2020 Amendments of Russia’s 1993 Constitution: A Post-Colonial Interpretation
Journal: Journal of Indonesian Constitutional Law
Year: 2025

In 2020, Russia enacted far-reaching amendments in its Constitution. The classical theory of democratic constitutionalism sees them as a roll-back into an autocratic and isolationist past the reason of which it cannot explain. The objective of this paper is to give the amendments an additional, post-colonial reading in order to fill the gaps of the classic interpretation. Russia was a colonial power (Tsarist Russia, Soviet Union), lost this status in 1991 and has endeavoured to re-create an empi