Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation (Center for International Law and Comparative Law Studies, Chief Researcher)
graduate student
The article is devoted to legal issues of international military cooperation of the Russian Federation during a special military operation. During the specified period, the efforts of the forces and parties hostile to the Russian Federation were focused on supporting the Kyiv regime with funds, weapons, military equipment and mercenary units, and were also aimed at the international isolation of our country. In this regard, the organization of international military cooperation of the Russian Federation with other countries and the consolidation of the procedure and conditions for such cooperation in international legal documents is an important factor in ensuring the defense of the country and state security. The main attention is paid to the disclosure of the legal characteristics of international military cooperation of the Russian Federation during a special military operation, as well as to the improvement of this work in the law-making and law enforcement aspects. The authors applied a systemic and comparative legal approach, as well as the methods of complex, functional, structural and genetic analysis, synthesis of its results, scientific generalization, classification, deduction and comparison that practically implement them. Results. The main scientific results of the study are that the authors theoretically generalized and practically identified the international legal characteristics of international military cooperation of the Russian Federation during a special military operation, as well as trends and vectors for improving the legal support in the aspect under consideration. Conclusion. Despite the coordinated military, political, international and tacit efforts of the collective West, the Russian Federation continues to effectively implement international military cooperation, while its vector is shifted towards the states of the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific region, BRICS and some CIS countries. This work required both the organization of appropriate legal support for recording the rules and conditions of such cooperation in international legal documents. A promising direction for further scientific research is the legal forecasting of its development and consolidation in international legal documents regulating the organization of international military cooperation and corpus changes in approaches to it.
international law, international military cooperation, international legal knowledge, military conflict, international relations, globalization, national security
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