Journal headings
"Legal sciences"

Annotation: One of the important resources for the sustainability of all political regimes is legitimacy. According to the general theory of legitimacy, the reasons and conditions for placing trust in the society of the dominant political class for finding it in power are explained, using the available symbolic, moral and legal tools to guarantee self-legitimation. If we talk about modern states governed by the rule of law, then the basis of legitimacy is usually associated with the national supreme law – the constitution, that is, its fundamental values, principles and norms, just like the approval of them by society regarding their application by state institutions and officials. Each significant revision of the main state at the same time means both a challenge to the previously established legitimacy and an attempt to “make a new constructor”. The nationwide vote on amendments to the Constitution, held from June 25 to July 1, 2020, revealed that the public’s credit of the current concept of public administration and personally to the head of state during the previous presidential elections has been proven.

Annotation: The modern approach to the institutions of marriage and family is considered in the context of historical and comparative legal analysis of legislative acts, as well as dogmatic norms of church law. Considerable attention is paid to the responsibilities of spouses as moral and legal regulators of family relations. Based on the traditional meanings and values of marriage, a consistent ethization of the family legislation of Russia is proposed, which will allow avoiding neoliberal tendencies that significantly hamper the development of modern family policy.

Annotation: Science in the Russian Federation is included in the main national priorities, therefore maximum attention is required to the state of science as a whole and to improve the level of its attractiveness. The main goals for the near future are import substitution, reducing dependence on the supply of innovative equipment, raw materials and materials from abroad, achieving the level of world scientific leaders, as well as reducing the outflow of scientists. This can be achieved, among other things, by increasing the attractiveness of science for young professionals. The article provides an analysis of the legal framework for supporting young scientists in the Russian Federation, assesses its structure and ways of further improvement.

Annotation: This article is devoted to the analysis of the function of state defense against external aggression at the present stage of state and legal development, the views of legal scholars on the content of this external function of the state and the form of its implementation, the reflection of the function of state defense in the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the current military doctrine of the Russian Federation. The article also describes the features of the structure of the military-industrial complex of the USSR, in particular, during the Great Patriotic War, and modern Russia, suggests possible ways to improve the effectiveness of the implementation of the external function of the state.

Annotation: The Russian Federation, one of the world powers, and the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, an unrecognized state, in their Constitutions positioned themselves as legal. Such a constitutional norm rather defines the purpose, but not the statement of the development level of the institutions inherent in the rule of law. Article 2 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and Article 16 of the Constitution of the PMR, which impose on the state the obligation to protect human and civil rights and freedoms, have a direct effect, as do the norms of paragraph 1 of Article 45 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and Article 45 of the Constitution of the PMR, which enshrine state guarantees for the performance of these duties. To varying degrees, all links of the state mechanism are involved in the mechanism of implementation of these guarantees, but the institute of the Prosecutor’s Office occupies a special place. A comparative characteristic of the constitutional status of the Prosecutor’s office in the Russian Federation and the PMR is given.