PLACE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL LEGAL DOCTRINE OF RELIGIOUS SECURITY IN THE DOCTRINAL LEGAL FIELD OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

In the article, the author touches upon the study of the role of legal doctrine in the resistance against challenges that face Russia and Belarus nowadays. This is the main problematic area of this research. The author proves that the main role in the legal doctrines of Belarus and Russia belongs to the constitutional legal doctrine of religious security. The article reveals the legal nature of this doctrine. The work demonstrates the worldview basis of the constitutional legal doctrine of religious security and formulates its basic principles. The author also indicates the development of constitutional law doctrines of the two states, as well as directions for improving constitutional law norms. The novelty of the study lies in the author's description of the essence of legal doctrine. Such a doctrine is not arbitrary, but exists objectively and has to be accurately expressed. The novelty of the study also refers to the central place of the constitutional legal doctrine of religious security in the doctrinal field of Russia and Belarus. The main research methods are comparative legal, systemic and logical analysis. The article formulates the principles of ensuring the religious security of the two states, which would be impossible without the use of such methods as synthesis, abstraction and concretization, analogy and modeling. Additionally, some empirical methods were used in the research, such as: formal-legal analysis of normative acts and literature, study and generalization of scientific theory, and other methods. One of the important conclusions is that in the Republic of Belarus, a model of state-religious relations is more progressive than in Russia in respect of ensuring religious security. This study can be useful for representatives of the law enforcement and legislative bodies of Russia and Belarus. The methodological approaches described in the article could be taken into account in the process of developing conjoint legislation in the framework of the Union State formation.

doctrine, state-religious attitudes, religious security, constitutional, orthodoxy