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Constitutional Justice in Asia. "Principle of Equality and Prohibition of Discrimination"
The Russian Constitution reflects universally recognised consensus in the area of promoting the principle of equality and non-discrimination, enshrining main guarantees of equality of citizens regardless of their national and ethnic origins, gender, age, social and other status and other criteria. The Constitutional Court's case-law develops and clarifies these basic provisions enriching them by criteria of admissible differentiation of legal status. Preferences given to some vulnerable groups of people im comparison with the general group may raise the issue of positive discrimination the origins and types of which are expounded in the report. The analysis is given of main situations where the Russian Constitutional Court faced that issue and the evolution of its cas-law on the matter, especially in the light of the European Court of Human Rights' approaches.

The book contains interventions on a conference held at the University of Aix-Marseille on the topic of control of constitutionality done by modern constitutional courts. It focuses on the issues of constitutional justice in France and East-European countries thus offering a comparative analysis of main problems and techniques. Among others, the issue of interaction of constitutional courts and external legal orders is dealt with, focusing on different approaches to this problem solution in these countries.
In promoting the universally recognized principle of equality and non-discrimination modern constitutional justice elaborates on the criteria of personal legal status admissible differentiation. Preferences given to some vulnerable groups of people in comparison with the majority may raise the issue of positive discrimination the origins and types of which are expounded in the article. The author gives a comparative analysis of different approaches to the issue in the practice of the Russian Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of the USA and the French Constitutional Council and shares her reflections on possible evolution of the problem.
The Russian Constitution reflects universally recognised consensus in the area of promoting the principle of equality and non-discrimination, enshrining main guarantees of equality of citizens regardless of their national and ethnic origins, gender, age, social and other status and other criteria. The Constitutional Court's case-law develops and clarifies these basic provisions enriching them by criteria of admissible differentiation of legal status. Preferences given to some vulnerable groups of people im comparison with the general group may raise the issue of positive discrimination the origins and types of which are expounded in the report. The analysis is given of main situations where the Russian Constitutional Court faced that issue and the evolution of its cas-law on the matter, especially in the light of the European Court of Human Rights' approaches.
The legal concept and legislative regulation of the principle of prohibition of discrimination is beeng analysed . We also discuss changes of Russian legislation aimed to strengthen protection against discrimination during applying for jobs and disseminating of information with discriminatory requirement concerning vacancies. The article analyses the effectiveness of these provisions .
The article analyses the principle of equal tax burden perspectives on decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The author notes the principle equal tax burden is based on the principle of non discrimination and has international law and constitutional law nature. The paper includes discrimination causes: organisational and legal form of entrepreneurial activity, location of taxpayer, amount of profits and others.