Abstract
The rationale of the study is the uniqueness of the system of the multi-national and multi-confessional Russian state. Peoples' inclusion into a single state legal framework determined the need to develop a relevant ethnic legal policy. In this regard, this paper is aimed at articulating the legal fundamentals of the Russian politics in XVI-XVIII centuries towards aboriginal peoples on the example of the Mordvins. The paper discusses the key aspects of the Mordvins life under the Russian law. It looks into 16th-18th centuries regulations regarding non-Russians that determined the specifics of their adaptation within Russia. The study is mainly based on the formal-legal, historical-legal methodology with emphasis on sociocultural and legal-anthropological approaches, which made it possible to historically and legally assess laws and regulations that reflect specifics of Mordvins position in the 16th-18th centuries. The paper has a practical value for improving the legislation for inter-ethnic relations and strengthening the foundations of federalism as the key characteristic of the Russian state.
Highlights
Issues on legal pluralism and ethnic legal policies have become widely discussed among specialists from various socio-humanitarian fields
In the article we show that the politics toward aboriginal ethnoses was complex, a combination of repressive and supportive measures
The vast majority of the country's peoples have developed over the centuries as ethnic communities on the territory of Russia, and in this sense, they are indigenous peoples who played a historical role in the formation of the Russian state
Summary
Issues on legal pluralism and ethnic legal policies have become widely discussed among specialists from various socio-humanitarian fields. The nation-state increasingly faces various forms of local customary, religious, and indigenous law. As these forms of non-state law persist and proliferate alongside the nation-state, the relationship between state and non-state law becomes more complex and multifaceted (Helfald, 2015). Global legal pluralism provides a broad synthesis across a variety of legal doctrines and academic disciplines and offers a novel conceptualization of law and globalization (Berman, 2012). Legal fundamentals toward aboriginal ethnoses as collective subjects of law, considerations in official legal system of customary law present significant part of legal pluralism in multinational state.
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