THE LEGAL FUTURE OF RUSSIA. Part 2. Civilizational choice

In the first part of the article, two main approaches to understanding the prospects for the legal development of Russia, formulated in modern domestic legal literature («western» and «eastern» legal ways), were investigated. The second part of the article presents the author’s position on the civilizational choice of Russia, analyses the initial social and cultural prerequisites, as well as the possible scenarios for the legal development of the country, the factors contributing to and hindering its socio-legal progress. Some basic ideas about legal progress formed within the framework of the Western legal tradition are critically rethought. Taking into account the national-legal features of Russia, its historical experience, the author proposes the value-legal guidelines that differ from those existing in European culture and are based not on the idea of autonomy, social isolation of subjects, but on their legal connection, interaction. Alternatives to the Western concepts of combining politics and law, democratic rule of law and individualistic property are discussed.