Legal Nature of Principles of Russian Law from Position of Legalism and Integrative Understanding of Law
The article deals with legal nature of the principles of Russian Law from the position of legalism and integrative understanding of law. The author criticizes the identification of concepts "legal principles" and "principles of law" and reducing of the principles of law to "soft law", ideas, "fixed" in the legislation. The article presents the author's vision of legal nature of the principles of Russian Law from the position of integrative understanding of law, which consists of the fact that the principles of Russian Law are basic exterior form of Russian Law, which determine its essence, ensures the balanced state of Russian Law, its interrelation, integrity, the internal unity, consistency, sequence and predictability. The basic principles of Russian Law are related by the author to the undisputable national law (jus cogens), mandatory both for the authorized law-making and law-executing bodies.