DOI: 10.17072/1995-4190-2015-1-18-22

The Analysis of the legal substance of the Constitutional principle of the right of peoples to self-determination

Z.T. Abasova

Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

82, Prosp. Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119571

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Introduction: the article is devoted to analysis of the legal essence of the principle of the right of peoples to self-determination. Purpose: the author analyzes the legal nature of the principle of the right of peoples to self-determination. Methods: the Methodological basis of the work is dialectical method and based on it system General academic and private research methods. Results: the author studied different approaches to defining the essence of the right of peoples to self-determination, analyzed different views on this issue and attempts to identify the essence of the constitutional principle of the right of peoples to self-determination. Conclusions: the author explored different approaches about the essence of the right of peoples to self-determination and concluded that the right of peoples to self-determination is an integral, true and unconditional right of peoples belonging to them unconditionally. The author explored different approaches about the essence of the right of peoples to self-determination and concluded that the right of peoples to self-determination is an integral, true and unconditional right of peoples belonging to them unconditionally. It is necessary to determine the range of subjects entitled to self-determination, both at the international and national legislative levels. It is necessary to develop clear criteria for when the right of peoples to self-determination can be realized in the form of separation from the state, and when an attempt to secede from the state only seems like the realization of the right to self-determination.

Keywords: the rights of peoples; the right of peoples to self-determination;
the constitutional principle of equality and the right of peoples to self-determination

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