The constitutional role of the guard has only one military function, that's to repel invasion.

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We must guard it with all the vigor that we guard other constitutional protections.

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It is likely to be upheld in these decisions by the Russian Constitutional Court, operating under the chairmanship of another Old Guard apparatchik, Valery Zorkin.

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