Responsibility of the Government to the Parliament in the Russian Federation under Constitutional Law

Abstract

The subject of the paper covers the issues of the legal regulation of the Government's responsibility to the Russian Parliament. The paper focuses on the issues of responsibility of the executive power to the legislature. The author has carried out an analysis of the legal regulation of the Government's responsibility under Constitutional Law that it owes to the Parliament and determines the main problems of organizational and legal character in the area in question. The relevant literature analysis has revealed the main shortcomings of the legal regulation of parliamentary responsibility in Russian legislation. The paper focuses on the development of legislative approaches that reinforce the control powers of the legislature. The main conclusion of the study is that the legislation regulating parliamentary responsibility of the Government of the Russian Federation needs further improvement. The novelty of the article is as follows: the author makes proposals for the further improvement of the legislation in the aspect of ensuring effective parliamentary control over the activities of the executive branch at the federal level, in particular, the author makes proposals with regard to the introduction of grounds that could give rise to parliamentary responsibility, the introduction of the institution of individual parliamentary responsibility, amandments to some constitutional norms.