Legal responsibility and irresponsibility, legal and national security: problems of correlation and systemic relations*
The authors of the article investigate the problem of the legal regulation of ensuring national security. The integrative nature of legal security is substantiated. Legal security is necessary to regulate other varieties of national security. First of all, attention is paid to the institutional aspect of legal security, an integral part of which is legal responsibility, aimed to ensure legal regulations on national security by measures of state coercion. As the opposite of legal responsibility at the institutional level, the legal irresponsibility of authorities is analyzed, which manifests itself, firstly, as the absence of rules providing for legal responsibility for illegal acts in the sphere of national security implementation; secondly, as declarations of responsibility; thirdly, as conflicts that preclude bringing to legal liability; fourthly, as excessive regulation of public relations. In the field of legal practice, irresponsibility manifests itself as the commission of offences and failure to fulfill obligations. The analysis of the National Security Strategy and the Federal Law of June 28, 2014 No. 172-FL “On strategic planning in the Russian Federation” revealed the violation of coordination and subordination relations between them, the declarative nature of many regulations and measures of legal responsibility aimed at their implementation.