THE PROTECTION OF THE SLAVIC WORLD AS A POLITICAL AND LEGAL CONCEPT OF RUSSIAN CIVILIZATIONAL IDENTITY: THE RETURN OF THE GEOPOLITICAL PRINCIPLE

The article examines the issues of civilizational development of Russia through the prism of legal historiography. It is argued that the protection of the Slavic world is a political and legal concept of Russian civilizational identity, without the understanding of which the completeness of the system of Russian political and legal knowledge is inconceivable. After considering the role of Slavophilism in the Russian political and legal culture, the factor of Slavic reciprocity in the modern political and legal concept of Russian civilizational identity, the conclusions are argued that only taking into account the need to strengthen the leading role of Russia in the Slavic world of Europe can ensure the sustainable development of the civilizational space of Russian political and legal culture; that the mission of protecting the Slavic peoples, included in the meanings of the Russian civilizational identity, should be constitutionally enshrined as a constitutional value and part of civic identity; that the preservation and deliverance from ideological deformations of the Russian civilizational identity requires the return of the protection of the Slavic world to the list of Russia’s foreign policy priorities; that the consideration of the protection of the Slavic world as a political and legal concept of Russian civilizational identity implies the need to understand the role of multi-level political decisions in the sphere of national state-building. the spiritual and geopolitical revival of historical Russia, it is necessary to form a new Union state on the basis of the Russian Federation – the Russian Union – and the creation a broader state confederation around Russia.