Многонациональное федеративное государство: социально-философский анализ понятия
Multiethnic Federal State: Social and Philosophical Analysis of the Concept

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the problem that has been considered as poorly relevant in theoretical legal studies. The urgent drafting and adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation in the early 1990s to prevent disintegration of the country predetermined the utilitarian and pragmatic approach to elaboration of both essential provisions and separate articles of the document. There was no deep insight into the realities of the Russian statehood; searching was performed for the combination of categories, terminology, and certain concepts that would be acceptable for the actual subjects of the federation and allow to formally and legally preserve the state’s unity. The past clearly demonstrated the narrowness of this approach for construction of a firm legal foundation of the multiethnic federal state. The purpose of the paper is to define pressure points that were not discovered in time and healed with the constitutional legal measures. The tasks of the study are to identify the most important problems in the present state structure of Russia, as of a multiethnic federal state that developed as a result of the interaction between many nations characterized by various regional, cultural, and demographic features; to carry out meta-legal and socio-philosophical analysis of the specificity of the current national and ethnic situation in Russia with account of socio-psychological, political, and ethnocultural factors.

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