Конституция Республики Саха (Якутия)

The Constitution of Republic Sakha (Yakutia)

The Declaration of Sovereignty of the Sakha Republic was a great event in the life of our Republic. Nowadays everybody knows that sovereignty gives much opportunity to economic and political development, but it means not only profit. It is a great responsibility as well. Basing on this Declaration the Constitution of the Sakha Republic was adopted on the 27th of April,1992. By the Constitution the Sakha Republic is a sovereign democratic state based on self-determination of the people. The most important point is that land resources, water, forest and animal world become national property of peoples of the Republic. According to the Constitution the Sakha and Russian languages are the official languages of the Sakha Republic. The Constitution gives its citizens the right to different forms of property: state, collective, private and joint ones. The Constitution gives its citizens the right to establish political, cultural, commercial and other relations with foreign countries, to take part in the activities of international organizations. The head of the government of the Republic is the President. Mikhail Efimovich Nikolayev, the first President of the Sakha Republic was elected in 1991, January 27. Now the president of the republic is V.A. Shtyrov. The Sakha Republic has its own National Flag and Emblem. The Emblem represents the Sakha national sign: a circle with an ancient horsemen in the centre holding a standard. The National Flag represents a right-angled cloth, consisting of blue, white, red and green stripes. The blue stripe shows the northern blue sky, the white stripe embodies the long winter, symbolizing the moral pureness of the northern people. The red stripe embodies love and life, the green colour shows the firm belief in the light future.