CONCEPT OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY LAW
International social security law cannot be characterized with the help of the law branch approach, traditional for modern Russian law. Russian scholars usually consider it either as a branch of international public law or as a complex branch of international law combining the rules of both international public and international private law. The issue of interrelation between the national and international law is based on the monistic or dualistic approach. According to the first approach, international legal provisions are directly applied by courts and other agents of law. Under the second approach, the transportation of an international rule into the national law is necessary, as it does not have any priority. The Russian legal system is based on the dualistic concept. In accordance with Federal Law N 101-FZ dated 15.07.1995, international treaties on human rights should undergo ratification. After ratification their provisions can be applied directly by any agents of law or may be included into the Russian legal acts. The Russian social security law is a complicated system of fundamental legal principles and norms which organically combines national and international rules. In this system the international standards of social security are “transformed” into the national law after ratification of international treaties (ILO conventions, European Social Charter etc.) and regulate public relations in the sphere of social security.