LEGAL STATE: THEORY AND PRACTICE
This article examines the problems associated with the formation and development of the Russian Federation as a legal state, systematically examines the structure, features, elements, principles, objectives and activities of the legal state. The study carried out within the framework of this topic makes it possible to conclude that the Russian Federation at the moment can not be fully recognized as a legal state either from the point of view of legal or from the point of view of social meaning. The Russian Federation is only on the way towards the establishment of a legal state.