State Sovereignty of Russia in the Face of External Threats

Abstract

The article identifies and examines the norms of the Constitution of the Russian Federation on ensuring sovereignty, suggests the author’s ideas for protecting the country’s sovereignty in the face of pressure on the traditional socio-cultural values of the peoples of Russia, NATO’s advance to the East and the entry of Finland and Sweden into this military-political bloc. It is concluded that constitutional protection against threats and protection of state sovereignty should not harm Russia's international cooperation. Some author’s concepts and proposals are proposed to modernize the constitutional mechanism of protection from external threats and to ensure state sovereignty in modern conditions, including the development of a new draft Constitution of Russia, taking into account modern Russian realities and progressive foreign experience. The author concludes that Russia needs a new concept of state security and migration policy. In particular, the Constitution of Russia needs to be modernized in accordance with new realities, paying attention to the dignity, standard and quality of life of citizens; it is the norms of the Constitution that should act as a new basis for protecting the state from external threats.