Delineation of competence between regional bodies of constitutional justice and other courts in the Russian Federation: competition or alternative jurisdiction?

The article deals with the analysis of competence of the constitutional (statutory) courts of territorial entities the Russian Federation in relation to the courts of General jurisdiction, arbitration courts, as well as the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Based on the analysis, the authors draw the conclusion that there is no interference of the constitutional (statutory) courts of territorial entities of the Russian Federation in the Federal jurisdiction in conditions of the unity of the legal system, which is provided by the consistency of acts of different levels, in accordance to which the bodies of regional constitutional justice are forced to refer to the Federal legislation when making decisions.Based on the norms of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the Arbitration Procedural Code of the Russian Federation, the Code of Administrative Judicial Procedure of the Russian Federation, judgements of the Supreme and Constitutional courts of the Russian Federation, as well as the decisions of the bodies of regional constitutional justice, it was found that today only the constitutional (statutory) courts are competent to consider citizens ‘ appeals on compliance with the Constitution (Charter) of a territorial entity of the Russian Federation normative legal acts of the territorial entity of the Russian Federation and municipalities...