MAIN PECULIARITIES OF NAVAL WARFARE ACCORDING TO THE RULES OF LAW OF ARMED CONFLICTS AND LEGAL ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL ACTS
Different means and methods of naval warfare according to the rules of law of armed conflicts are studied. One of the methods of naval warfare is considered - naval blockade as a system of not forbidden by international law forcible actions of naval forces of belligerent state, aimed to seal from the sea to the shore, which is under control of the enemy or is occupied by them. Problems of legal terminology and peculiarities of the methods of naval warfare are touched upon, particularly prise right - the total of international legal norms, regulating the seizure by belligerent countries of merchant ships and cargo in the sea and their further converting into their property.