The author did set a goal to consider not so much the causes, the objectives and the consequences of political modernization having common name of vertical power structure strengthening as the legal and political contents of these processes that eventually by the year
2012 drastically changed Russia’s political system configuration. In author’s opinion, reformed vertical power structure became the top-down public authority and administration system based upon vertical of executive power that virtually incorporates legislative power providing legitimacy for executive body decisions.
Keywords: vertical power structure; Federal District; Russian Presidential Envoy; sub-federal entities integration; power resource redeployment.
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