Russian Federation’s Targets for Applying Principles of the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination and Territorial Integrity of States

The article attempts to analyze Russia’s objectives of implementing the principles of the right of peoples to self-determination and territorial integrity of states. The aim of the study is to identify the target settings for implementing the principles of the right of peoples to self-determination and the territorial integrity of states by the Russian Federation. The paper uses such methods as press analysis, comparative, systematic, document analysis and the normative method. The main results of the work are the following statements. The analysis of the policy of the Russian Federation on the application of the principles of the right of peoples to self-determination and the territorial integrity of states on the examples of Transnistria, Kosovo and Crimea allowed us to identify the targets of applying these principles by Russia, affecting the prevalence of one or another principle. These targets are related to the national interests of the Russian Federation, but at the same time have their own specifics. These targets include: the need to preserve its territorial integrity; the need to ensure security near state borders in order to protect the principle of territorial integrity of states; the need to protect the population from ethno-national conflicts within the country; the need to protect the cultural diversity of the country. The identified targets, in case of their conceptualization and official publication at the state level, will make the position of the Russian Federation in relation to implementing the principles of the right of peoples to self-determination and the territorial integrity of states more predictable, which will contribute to strengthening Russia’s status in the international arena as a guarantor of international law and security.

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