Russia’s Place on the Legal Map of the World (a Comparative Analysis of the Positions of Russian Comparatives)

The last three decades have been marked by the intensification of comparative studies in our country, an important plot of which is to determine Russia’s place on the legal map of the world. Russian comparative studies initially, since the 19th century, developed in the East — West ideological paradigm.

In the post-Soviet period, an opportunity arose to rethink the global system of legal coordinates, especially in the light of modern international turbulence. Among the comparative works published by Russian publishing houses, attention is drawn to those that quite clearly define Russia’s belonging to the Romano-Germanic legal family. Indeed, in structural and functional terms, the Russian legal system has many acquired features similar to individual parameters of the Romano-Germanic legal family. However, one should also agree with those researchers who point to the incompleteness of the legal self-determination of Russia, to the existence of some alternatives for its further development.

The author of the article assumes that the state of legal consciousness and legal culture, together with other factors of public life, is of great importance for legal identification. At the same time, in his opinion, the pan-Slavic tradition was not of great importance for Russia due to the active expansion of the West to the East. On the other hand, until the end of the 1980s, the socialist legal family was a very real phenomenon. At the moment, apparently, Russia is more and more showing itself as the initiator of the emerging Eurasian legal system. However, this process is clearly not completed. In any case, the legal system of our country, as Professor V. N. Sinyukov, “belongs to a special type of legal civilization”.

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