Constitutional and Legal Foundations for Ensuring the Unity of the Peoples of Russia as a Traditional Spiritual and Moral Value

Abstract

The approval of the foundations of the state policy for the preservation and strengthening of traditional Russian spiritual and moral values has actualized the issues of their legal formalization. The applied scientific methods were dialectical, systematic and formal-legal methods that contributed to the identification of the features of the legal regulation of the analyzed concept of “the unity of the peoples of Russia”. The analysis of regional legal acts testifies to the diversity of legal regulation in the sphere of national policy. In the course of the study, it was found that the legal formulations “unity of peoples” and “the unity of a multinational people” do not quite coincide, the unity of peoples is defined as a goal, task, priority for the implementation of national policy in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and there is both “territorial” and a nationwide approach to the regulation of this issue. State unity, being the constitutional principle of Russian federalism, acts as an organizational condition for ensuring the unity of the peoples living on the territory of the Russian Federation.