Ensuring the National Security of the Russian Federation: Theoretical and Legal Aspect

This article discusses the theoretical and legal aspect of ensuring the national security of the Russian Federation. The globalization processes taking place in the modern world are accompanied by the growth of contradictions in the international arena. In addition, today, there is instability in the socio-economic development of Russia, due to a number of both external and internal factors. All these factors are a threat to Russia’s national security. The threat level to Russia’s national security is quite high. This is evidenced by the events taking place in the world and in Russia in the last few years and months. Thus, new challenges to Russia’s national security require an adequate response of the state to them, which indicates the relevance of the topic of this article. Solving the problem of ensuring Russia’s national security requires its comprehensive study, which also actualizes this article. The purpose of writing this article is an attempt at a comprehensive theoretical and legal analysis of ensuring the national security of the Russian Federation. The object of the study is the issues of national security of the Russian Federation in modern conditions. The subject of the study is the theoretical and scientific-methodological foundations of ensuring the national security of Russia. The methodological basis of the research is the methods of general theoretical analysis and logical synthesis. As a result of writing the article, the author concludes that Russia is subject to threats of both external and internal nature. The current stage of development of the Russian state is characterized by the intensification of these threats. The solution to the problem of ensuring the national security of Russia should be of a comprehensive nature, while relying on methods of a state-legal nature, provided that the state and civil society actively interact.

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