Sovereignty of Russia over its natural resources

The article deals with legal issues of enforcing rights of ownership and sovereignty of the Russian Federation over its mineral and other natural resources for the purpose of implementing legitimate interests of the population, present and future generations for their future well-being, prosperity and decent life proclaimed in the Russian Constitution, the constitutions and laws of most countries. In the author's opinion, the aggravation of the energy situation in the world leads to the discussion of legal issues concerning the implementation of the rights of ownership and sovereignty of the Russian Federation over its mineral and other natural resources for the purpose of enforcing legitimate interests of the population, present and future generations for their future well-being, prosperity and decent life and the formation of social welfare and rule-of-law states proclaimed in the Russian Constitution, the constitutions and laws of most countries. The state sovereignty formation over its natural resources begins with the main principles of environmental protection being declared, defined and enshrined in domestic law. These principles reflect sustainable development (the balance between economy and improvement of environment), the combination of rational use and preservation of a natural resource and its part within the boundaries of the territories (for example, the combination of a watershed principle and administrative-territorial principle) and the whole country, separation of management functions in the sphere of exploiting and preserving natural resources and functions of their commercial use, which can contribute to the prevention of environment degradation as a whole. The author believes that ecologization in the course of which economic and environmental relations are determined and regulated is facing with conflicts because economic benefit and natural resources exploitation often prevail in the minds of many citizens; relations between the society and nature lead to the perception of economy as a means of supporting the life of present and future generations rather than the objective of development Ecologized legislation is aimed at balancing current economic and environmental priorities The paper proves that the perspectives of further strengthening of sovereignty and development of Russia cannot but assume further improvement of legislation on forecasting, strategic planning, increase in the scale of preliminary evaluation of major projects, namely, key, "benchmark" and starting points of modernization of economic and social life as a whole.

globalization, sovereignty, mineral and natural resources, legal interests, environmental security, sustainable development

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