HERITAGE OF COMMON LAW IN THE RUSSIAN POST-SOVIET VILLAGE
The article examines the complex of customary legal communications in the Russian post-Soviet village from the point of view of the continuity of tradition. The author comes to the conclusion that the specificity of the mechanisms of social communication in the rural environment is laid down both by the very nature of agricultural labor, which requires collective participation in it, and by the whole way of village life, which rests not on legislative norms, but on customs / traditions, - on the collective experience of nonwritten regulation and solution of various problems of village life. Informal and for the most part not fixed in writing, but having a legal basis, agreements and obligations are dissolved in the everyday life familiar to villagers. Their observance is accompanied by a set of specific norms and attitudes, the knowledge of which is formed in the atmosphere and as a result of constant communication in an environment of long cohabitation.