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Abstract
On January 21, Doctor of Legal Sciences and Professor B.A. Strashun gave an interview to our journal. Boris Aleksandrovich is one of the experts of the RSFSR Constitutional Commission who helped prepare the draft of the new Russian Constitution. The reason for the interview, for which we had gotten agreement in principle as early as the spring of 1991, was the interest our readers showed (through their many letters) in the distinctive features of the future fundamental law of the Russian state now that sovereignty had been proclaimed. However, the planned meeting was postponed by the events associated with the defeat of the August putsch (B.A. Strashun was one of the White House specialists who helped the legitimate Russian leadership formulate the juridical grounds for opposing the State Committee for the State of Emergency [GKChP]) and the subsequent precipitous changes in the state machinery of the former USSR and the newly independent RSFSR.