Journal headings
"Legal sciences"

Annotation: This article discusses the varieties of the republican form of government that existed throughout history, as well as the characteristic features inherent in the republic. The authors’ goal is to analyze and formulate the main characteristics of the republican form of government, taking into account the historical development of this political phenomenon. This topic is relevant in connection with the substitution and loss of republican and democratic values that often takes place in modern times. With the fall of the legal culture of citizens, the decline of interest in preserving the principle of election of power, the legal legacy of the past merits deserves first priority attention. With the examples of the brightest types of the republic, the authors analyze the main features of the republican form of government, both originated in ancient times and acquired in the recent past. The article reveals the historically formed signs of republican power. As the main results, the authors formulate the characteristic features of the republican form of government.

Annotation: The article deals with the modern approaches to diplomatic recognition of the new States, argues the conclusion that Donetsk and Luhansk people’s Republic have the necessary international legal grounds for their diplomatic recognition: a permanent population, a defined territory, a government capacity to enter into relations with other States. Examples of difficulties with the diplomatic recognition of the history of international relations.

Annotation: The article discusses various interpretations of the concept of «constitutionalism» that exist in modern Russian legal literature. Special attention is paid to philosophical and legal definition of the phenomenon of constitutionalism. The article also focuses on the issue of classification of constitutionalism from the perspective of its application in practice.

Annotation: The article examines the constitutional and legal foundations of the state system of Russia, analyzes their state, identifies the problems and trends in the development of federal relations.

Annotation: The article deals with master’s and doctoral dissertations in various branches of science (first of all under state law), in which the author chose certain issues of the legal personality doctrine as a subject of research, and defended in Russian imperial universities during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The main goal of the authors in the analysis of these works was to investigate with the help of the comparative-historical method, as well as formal-logical techniques, the main tasks, content, and the results obtained by pre-revolutionary jurists, who were represented by them in the forms of scientific knowledge. There were a very small number of studies on the subject and that was due to the level of domestic legal science in the XIX century in Russia. Substantiated the continuation of the study of the results of dissertation research on the problems of legal personality in the Soviet and post-Soviet period with the aim of preparing an information base for making historically based law-making government decisions.