On the Impact of Constitutional Short Stories on the Development of Antitrust Regulation and Law Enforcement

The influence of the constitutional novels provided by the Law of the Russian Federation № 1-FKZ on the amendment to the Constitution of the Russian Federation dated March 14th, 2020 on the development of antimonopoly regulation and law enforcement is considered. A change in the official position on the issues of assessing the behavior of economic entities in the field of competition protection was noted, including the rejection of a formal approach in favor of an approach designed to take into account the goals, objectives and specifics of antimonopoly regulation on the basis of the norms of Articles 1–3 of the Law on Protection of Competition. The new approach is reflected, in particular, in paragraph 1 of the Decree № 2 of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated March 4th, 2021.According to the author, part of the general response of our country to the sanctions policy against the Russian economy should be a change in the antimonopoly regulation with new constitutional provisions.