ST. PETERSBURG. Nov 13 (Interfax) - There must be no drastic changes in the Russian constitution despite its possible shortcomings, Russian Constitutional Court Chairman Valery Zorkin said in St. Petersburg on Thursday.

"Our constitution is not the Gospel; it was created by people who naturally have certain weaknesses and inadequacies. Certainly, our constitution has many faults alongside merits. Yet this is not the reason to change it [the constitution] radically and by vector," he said.