Topical issues of participation of the Federation Council in resolving national issues

the article is devoted to the current problems of participation of the Federation Council in resolving national issues. The areas related to the implementation of the principle of separation of powers in the Russian Federation (RF) and the place of the Federation Council in this system are considered. Particular attention is paid to the aspect of changes in legislation. The powers of the upper house of parliament are different and multidirectional, related to both domestic and foreign policy. The Federation Council performs a supervisory, coordinating, and legislative function. It has the right to establish administrative and legal regimes if necessary, make decisions on the termination of the powers of the head of state, build interaction between government bodies, participate in the areas of diplomacy, and resolve a number of important issues of personnel and public law nature. The author concluded that the powers of the upper house of parliament are limited in the implementation of state tasks. As a solution to the problems, transformations at the theoretical and practical level are proposed, aimed at attributing the Federation Council to one branch of government, changing the system of formation of this state body, legislative consolidation of the scope of powers and their limitations. The purpose of the study is to theoretically study the current problems of participation of the Federation Council in solving national issues. The objectives of the work are to study the literature on the topic of the study; analysis of regulatory documents governing the activities of the Federation Council; characteristics of the powers of the upper house of parliament in practice, their legal and factual orientation. When working on this topic, the methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematization were used. The practical significance of the study is determined by the possibility of its application as additional material in the study of legal issues related to public administration, constitutional law.

state power, Federation Council, powers, separation of powers, national issues