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Российская Федерация как государство-правопреемник: конституционно-правовой подход
Amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 2020 on the recognition of the Russian Federation as the successor of the USSR actualized the need to understand the succession of the state. This article analyzes various legal grounds and consequences of the recognition of the succession of the state and the people in relation to property and values passed on from previous generations in connection with historical transformations of public legal entities. There are confirmations that the succession of Russia can extend beyond the status of a state in the international arena. The author proves that the people and the state are the legal successors both in relation to property, including the national heritage as the basis of the life of society, and spiritual and cultural values such as historical monuments and works of art. The study used a formal legal method to analyze the decisions of the French courts on the affiliation of the Russian Federation by the succession of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Nice and the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on ensuring the rights of rehabilitated victims of political repression by the state. The historical and legal analysis allowed us to come to the conclusion that it is necessary to refer to historical documents, facts and events when establishing subjects and objects of succession. According to the philosophical law of the "universal correlation of existence and its universal conditionality", the essence of succession in the public-legal sphere consists in the continuous transformation of public-legal education and the connection of the relevant subjects about a certain object. The continuity of traditions and values created by previous generations by descendants includes the sociological, historical and other content of the continuous connection of state and social processes. By itself, succession does not generate succession, but can be its basis or used as an argument for the legal qualification of succession. When proving the succession of the people and the state, public legal regulation and public legal argumentation are mainly used. Traditional values characterize the "personality" of the people, and the spiritual and moral principles of statehood - the "personality" of the state. In constitutional law, the "image features" of a people or a state are the object of transition in the process of socio-political transformations. No matter how different the political regimes are from each other, the key to recognizing the succession of the new statehood, if necessary, will be the confirmation of the exercise of power by "these" generations living on "this" territory. The article considers other constitutional and legal positions that allow us to prove the continuity of the existence of the people and the state and the connections between the subjects, as well as objects belonging to them.