Organizational and legal bases of national security in modern Russia
Mission: in modern Russia, under the conditions of reforming all spheres of its life, the problem of national security and the mechanism for ensuring it is one of the key issues. The difficult international situation of Russia, the spread of international terrorism, and the growing threats to the interests of citizens, society, and the state require the development of effective measures aimed at ensuring national security. An important role is also assigned to legal science, which contributes not only to the increment of scientific knowledge on this issue, but also to the development of necessary measures to consolidate the legal space, improve legal means to protect sovereignty, respect national interests and prevent threats to the national security of our state. Issues of theory and practice related to ensuring national security require a systematic and comprehensive approach that includes both general theoretical research and achievements of branch sciences, as well as the needs of practice in the interests of individual, society, and state security. They become more relevant in connection with the increase and change of security types in general, the emergence of new threats and challenges, and dynamic changes in the global geopolitical space Methodology: includes two groups of methods: general scientific and special legal. General scientific methods are presented by the methods of empirical research (observation, comparison, description, etc.); methods of theoretical study (formalization, axiomatic method, hypothetical deductive method, etc.); general logical methods (analysis, generalization, analogy, modeling, etc.). Special legal methods include formal legal, comparative legal and method of interpretation of law. Conclusions. According to the results of the study of key doctrinal approaches to determining the concept, essence and content of national security, it should be concluded that this concept is the main one in the Russian legal system. Achieving the state of national security, which is the main goal and essence of the activities of a consistent state structure, determines the key directions of the state’s life in domestic and foreign policy. Scientific and practical significance. Due to the fact that it is a study of the organizational and legalfoundations the nature and content of national security and the mechanism of its ensuring in the modern Russia, the conclusions and generalizations outlined in this paper can serve as a methodological basis for further study of the problems of national security in general, its nature, content and mechanism of its protection and increase its effectiveness. Its practical significance is determined by its timeliness and relevance, the possibility of using conclusions and proposals to improve conceptual approaches to ensuring Russia’s national security, as well as in law-making and law enforcement practice.