Constitution of the RT (extract)

CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF TATARSTAN

(extract)

Article 1. The Republic of Tatarstan shall be a sovereign democratic state, expressing the will and interests of the whole multinational people of the republic.
The sovereignty and powers of the state shall come out from the people.
The state sovereignty shall be an inalienable qualitative status of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Article 4. Tatar and Russian shall be equally official languages in the Republic of Tatarstan.

Article 5. The state bodies in the Republic of Tatarstan shall take guidance from the principles of legal state, i.e. from the supremacy and strict observation of laws, division of legislative, executive and judicial powers.

Article 8. The Republic of Tatarstan shall reject violence and war as the means of setting disputes among the states and nations. The territory of The Republic of Tatarstan shall be a zone, free of mass destination weapons.
The propaganda of war shall be prohibited in The Republic of Tatarstan.

Article 9. The earth, mineral wealth, water, forest and other natural resources, the animal and vegetable kingdom, means of state budget, assets of national banks, cultural and historical values of the peoples of Tatarstan and other estate ensuring the economic independence of the republic, the preservation of material and spiritual culture, shall be the property of the whole people.

Article 11. The economic activities in The Republic of Tatarstan shall be based on private, state-owned, municipal (communal) and public property.
Land plots and other subjects, objects and projects, used in any sphere of activities not prohibited by the law, may be the private property.
The property of other states, international organizations, foreign juridical persons and aliens, stateless persons as well as the joint property of private citizens, juridical persons and the state shall be allowed in The Republic of Tatarstan.

Article 19. The Republic of Tatarstan shall have its own citizenship. Reasons, procedures of acquiring and renouncing the citizenship of The Republic of Tatarstan shall be established by the Law on the Citizenship of The Republic of Tatarstan.
Citizens of The Republic of Tatarstan shall be admitted to the citizenship of the Russian Federation - Russia.
Citizens of The Republic of Tatarstan may acquire the citizenship of other states under conditions determined by treaties and agreements between The Republic of Tatarstan and other states. Citizens of The Republic of Tatarstan may keep dual citizenship or renounce it.
Each person shall have the right to choose the citizenship and the right to change it. Deprivation of citizenship or of the right to change the citizenship shall be prohibited.

Article 59. The Republic of Tatarstan shall independently determine its state and legal status, making decisions concerning political, economic, socio-cultural development. The laws of The Republic of Tatarstan shall enjoy supremacy all over its territory, unless they contradict international obligations of The Republic of Tatarstan.

Article 61. The Republic of Tatarstan shall be a sovereign state, a subject of international law, associated to the Russian Federation - Russia - on the base of the Treaty on Mutual Delegation of Powers and Subjects under Jurisdiction.

Article 62. The Republic of Tatarstan shall establish relations with other countries, adhere international treaties, exchange diplomatic, consular, commercial and other missions, participate in international organizations, taking guidance from the principles of international law.
Generally recognized principles and norms of the international law shall prior to the laws of The Republic of Tatarstan.

Adopted on November 6, 1992