Regulation as a source of Russian law: concept and types

Abstract

The article is devoted to a special kind of normative legal acts — regulations. Due to the fact that today in Russia there is a large variety of such sources of law as regulations, there is a need not only for their classification, but also for their full study as an independent source of Russian law. The article examines the essential characteristics of the regulations, based on the analysis of the features of the regulations, which are an integral part of the Russian legal system, the author’s definition of the regulations is given. The functions performed by the regulations in the mechanism of legal regulation are indicated.The whole variety of regulations in force in Russia is divided into different groups, depending on the selected classification criteria. The classification allows us to consider the specific features of certain types of regulations, which, in turn, is extremely important for understanding the legal nature of regulations as sources of Russian law.