Presidential Decree No. 45 (28 May 1993) — Dissolution of the Constitutional Court

Ichkeria Digital Archive — CHRI-0086. Archival description based on a contemporary printed compilation. The PDF is a facsimile of a printed copy, not an independently authenticated original bearing the President’s signature.

Archival identification

ReferenceCHRI-0086
Date28 May 1993
Issuing authorityPresident Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen Republic
FormУказ — Presidential decree
Title / subjectDissolution of the Constitutional Court of the Chechen Republic
SourceMinistry of Justice of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Collection of Presidential Decrees and Directives, Book II (Grozny: Chechengosizdat, 1994), printed pp. 3–4; scanned volume pp. 2–3
VerificationContemporary institutional printed text available; signed original and subsequent implementation not independently verified

Historical content

The President alleges partisan misuse of the Constitutional Court and, invoking the Constitution and other legislation, orders its dissolution. The decree instructs the Ministry of Finance to stop financing the Court and the National Bank to close its accounts and cease financial operations.

Russian text — PDF facsimile

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Notes on attribution and verification

The justifications and legal assertions in the decree reflect the position of President Dudaev amid the 1993 constitutional crisis; publication of the text does not establish that these measures were constitutionally valid. The two cropped pages reproduce the full printed decree.

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