Change of Borders and Legal Order During the Transformation of the Russian State System

Abstract

With the change of borders, there is a need not only for the legal legitimization of this process, but also for the organization of the management system in the new territories. The article retrospectively examines the indicative periods of the Russian history of state and law, during which important changes took place in the administrative-territorial structure, in the mechanisms of state power and local self-government, in the legal regulation of borders within the country and its external borders. The conclusion is made about the relationship between the modernization of the state system, legal regulation and changes in the administrative-territorial borders of Russia. On the other hand, the process of changing the state system can be accompanied by corresponding foreign policy actions, administrative-territorial transformations, as a result of which the borders of the state change. The territories annexed by Russia were united by a legal system that adapted local specific forms of self-government to the state system; were economically integrated and developed at the expense of Russian investments; preserved their original culture. The regulation of the state boundaries of the Russian corresponds to its state system, role in the world community and trends in the transformation of the world along the path of equality of sovereign states.