Modern Constitutional and Legal Registration of State-Confessional Relations in the Russian Federation

The article shows the process of searching for a nationally oriented and consolidating ideology of Russian society. The stages of constitutional and legal registration of state-confessional relations in the context of the work being carried out are revealed. In the course of analyzing the stages of legal regulation of these relations, the authors of the article actualize the problems of legal understanding of the constitutional principles of the secular nature of the Russian state, freedom of conscience and religion. The article shows that the introduction of amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 2020 related to the indication of faith in «God» violates the principle of the secular nature of the state of the Russian Federation. This problem is considered by means of an example from legal practice and analyzed using the norms of legislation. According to the authors, belief in «God» is an individual inner relationship of a person to the supernatural. Therefore, by including this provision in the Basic Law of the State (Constitution), the legislator gives this sensible state a constitutional and legal status. As a result, this situation is discriminatory in relation to that part of the population who, in view of their conclusions, deny that they have the above-mentioned inner feeling for the supernatural. According to the authors, the inclusion of the mention of «faith» in «God» in the Constitution of the Russian Federation does not carry a general unifying value and ideological guideline for Russian society. In addition, the consolidation of this internal attitude towards the supernatural is alien to the positive nature of the Basic Law of the Russian Federation.

state-confessional relations, secular state, faith in God, regulation of relations