INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR ENSURING HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL FREEDOMS

Abstract

Aim. The article aims at defining the content of modern standards for ensuring personal rights and freedoms of citizens contained in international and national legislation. Methodology. A comparative analysis was conducted of the provisions of standard acts of international and national laws defining a minimum range of human rights and freedoms guaranteed by any modern civilized state. Empirical methods of comparison, description, interpretation; historical, legal and comparative legal methods were used. Results. The study argued that at present Russia has taken on greater obligations in comparison with international legal standards in the field of human and civil rights and freedoms, since the Constitution of the Russian Federation provides them. The decisions of ECHR are not absolute, and therefore may not be enforced if this poses a threat to the violation of state sovereignty. Research implications. A significant amount of normative requirements of international and national law in the field of determining standards of human and civil rights and freedoms, as well as their provision and judicial protection at the international and state levels, has been summarized.