To the Issue of the Status of a State as a Subject of International Law (the Doctrine Analysis)
The article deals with one of the key issue of international law, namely, the characteristic of a state as a subject of international law and its qualification as the unity of basic elements. At the research of the doctrine and certain international legal acts the author defines and analyzes in detail three main peculiarities reflecting the contemporary state of the problem (chronological scope of existence of a state; absence of the generally recognized criteria for creation or termination of a state; occurrence in practice of disputable situations and their different qualification). Besides, the basic elements of a state are doctrinally analyzed in the context of their existence and loss or modification and influence of corresponding events on the status of a state as a subject of international law (retaining of a state, termination of existence of a state), some consequences are indicated (including on state succession) and problems of legal qualification concerned with are revealed.