Annotation

The 2020 judicial reform resulted in the abolition of constitutional (charter) courts in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Given the positive experience of their functioning, the elimination of these judicial bodies cannot be considered part of the process of improving the judicial system. The completion of the reform clearly highlighted the problem of discrepancies between federal law and legal scholarship. In the adopted laws of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the objectives of the constitutional councils not only fail to clarify the legal nature of these bodies but also introduce further dissonance into their scholarly understanding. In turn, the statistical data observed at the present time reflect the passive attitude of society towards the functioning of the republican constitutional councils.