The constitutional and legal status of the heads and governments of the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics: transformation after the republics were admitted to the Russian Federation

The subject of this article is the scientific awareness of the transformation of the constitutional and legal status of heads and governments as executive authorities of the Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk People's Republics (LPR) after their admission to the Russian Federation. The purpose of the study is to identify and characterize the peculiarities of the transformation of the constitutional and legal status of the heads and governments of the new regions of Russia.The methodological basis of the article is a set of general and special methods of cognition. Among the general scientific methods: dialectical, analysis, synthesis. They formed the basis for the study of the development of the constitutional and legal status of the heads and governments of the DPR and LPR after joining Russia as new subjects. The special research methods were comparative legal, formal legal and systemic structural. When conducting a comparative analysis of the constitutional and legal status of the heads and governments of the DPR and the LPR, a comparative legal method was used. The study of normative legal sources was based on the formal legal method. Intrastructural changes in the formation and structure of heads and governments were considered in accordance with the system-structural method.The regulatory and legal basis of the study was made up of federal and regional (primarily, the DPR and the LPR) normative legal acts reflecting the peculiarities of the transformation of the constitutional and legal status of the heads and governments of the DPR and the LPR in the process of becoming part of Russia.The results of the study were manifested in the identification of the peculiarities of the transformation of the constitutional and legal status of the heads and governments of the DPR and LPR; the formation of the heads of new subjects of the Russian Federation according to the second model of the organization of the highest executive bodies of state power in the subject of the Russian Federation; the identification of general and specialized powers of the heads of the DPR and LPR; the allocation of two groups of decrees of the heads of the DPR and LPR; the transformation of the composition of governments DPR and LPR; identification of the general and special powers of the governments of the DPR and LPR.Conclusions. That the actual legal regulation of the organization and activities of the heads and governments of the DPR and LPR is carried out in accordance with the constitutional and legal norms of the Russian Federation, taking into account the historical features of the new subjects of the Russian Federation.