The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led not only of sovereignty of former Soviet republics, but also some of the autonomous republics of Russia, one of whom was the RT. The process of adopting a local constitution and its provisions have provoked heated debate both in the republic, and at the federal level, as some provisions of the Basic Law of Tatarstan had no parallel in the history of domestic constitutional thought. The political atmosphere of the Constitution of Tatarstan was characterized on the one hand the pressure of the federal center, speaking for the signing of the federal republic of the contract, and presentations by the radical nationalist organizations, spoke for the independence of the republic.

Russia, Tatarstan, the Constitution, the autonomous republic, federal contract, sovereignty, the project referendum