The concept and effectiveness of passport and registration activities in the context of changing the State Border of the Russian Federation

The systemic contradictions and inefficiencies of passport and registration activities were analyzed in the context of changes to the State Border of the Russian Federation. The administrative and legal mechanism of optation, along with the associated passport and registration activities, was studied. Deficiencies in passport and registration activities of both operational and conceptual nature were identified. Based on the analysis of the regulatory framework and law enforcement practice, legal collisions between the service and control functions of the state were determined. The legal and organizational consequences of the identified contradictions were revealed, expressed in risks to public and national security. It was established that the creation of a new Migration Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia necessitates a reform capable of overcoming systemic contradictions through the establishment of an integrated legal-information framework and a balanced approach to the integration of new citizens. Various methods were used in writing the article, including formal legal methods, analysis of the regulatory framework, institutional and structural-functional analysis, as well as comparative legal methods. The scientific novelty of the presented research lies in a comprehensive and critical approach to analyzing passport and registration activities as a cohesive administrative-legal mechanism. Conceptual contradictions underlying the mechanism of integration of new territories through the "opt-out" model were identified and theoretically substantiated. The novelty is due to the synthesis of legal analysis of state governance and security, as well as empirical verification of the shortcomings of the activities of territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia when changes to the State Border of the Russian Federation occur. Passport and registration activities in the context of optation face not just isolated failures but systemic contradictions between the state functions of service and control, formal legalization and real social integration, the declarative principle and the universal recognition of Russian Federation citizenship.

The Russian Federation, state border, citizenship, opt-out, passport activities, integration, registration activities, systemic contradictions, state functions, administrative procedures