gion can be established as state or obligatory; religious associations are separated from the state and are equal under the law.virtue of Article 14 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation in interrelation with its Articles 11, 12 and 13 and according to concretizing their regulations Article 4 of the Federal Laws «About freedom of worship and about religious associations »the constitutional principle of the secular state and division of religious associations from the state shall mean, that the state, its organs and officials, and organs and officials of local self-management, ie organs of public (political) authority, shall have no right to interfere legal activity of religious associations, to assign on them performance of functions of the organs of the government and organs of local self-management; Religious associations, in turn, shall have no right to interfere affairs of the state, to participate in formation and carry out functions of organs of the government and the organs of local self-management, to participate in activity of political parties and political movements, to render them material and other help, and also to participate in elections, including by propaganda and public support of these or that political parties or separate candidates. It does not interfere adherents of this or that creed, including clerics, equally with other citizens to participate in national will by voting. Supporters of this or that religion have freedom of choice and expression of their political convictions and political interests, decision-making and realization of the corresponding activity, and not as members of religious associations, but directly as the citizens or members of political parties., in the Russian Federation as the democratic and secular state, the religious association can not substitute the political party, it is non party and apolitical, while the party by virtue of the political nature can be the religious organization, it is non religious and unconfessional Anyway, the party, proceeding from the political applicability, is created not for expression and protection of these or that religious interests - for these purposes there can be created corresponding public associations in other organizational - legal forms established by the law.to the fundamentals of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation the principles of pluralistic democracy, multi-party system and the secular state regarding legislative regulation of creation and activity (including conditions of registration) of political parties can not be interpreted and realized without taking into account features of historical development of Russia , outside the context of national and confessional structure of the Russian society, and the features of interaction of the state, political authority, ethnic groups and religious confessions.Constitution of the Russian Federation stipulates, that the barrier of sovereignty and the unique source of power in the Russian Federation shall be the multinational people (Part 1 Article 3). In the name of the multinational people of Russia as the unity of the citizens of different nationalities and beliefs united with the common destiny and keeping historically developed state unity, the adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation (preamble) has been made.the principle of the secular state in the understanding developed in the countries with monoconfessional and mononational structure of the society and with developed traditions of religious tolerance and pluralism (that allowed, in particular, allow in some countries the political parties based on ideology on Christian democracy as the concept «Christian» in the given case leaves far beyond confessional frameworks and designates belonging to the European system of values ??and culture), can not be automatically applied in the Russian Federation.the multinational and multiconfessional Russia - owing to features of functioning of the leading dogmas (on the one hand, the Orthodoxy as the prevailing direction of christianity, and on the other hand - the Moslems), their influence on social life, including political ideology, historically substantially closely connected with the national - ethnic factor, - such concepts as «Christian», «orthodox», «Muslim», «Russian», «Tatar», etc., is associated in the public consciousness more likely with concrete confessions and separate nations, than with the common system of values ??of the Russian people as a whole present the Russian society, including political parties and religious associations, has not yet got solid experience of democratic existence. In these conditions the parties created according to national or religious attribute, would inevitably be guided by primary upholding of the rights of the corresponding national (ethnic) or religious groups. The competition of the parties formed according to the national or religious attribute which is especially sharpl...
