In its right

The principle of the priority of international law over national. This was stated by the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin in an interview with Rossiy Gazeta.

In the development of the Constitution in 1993, this principle "skillfully presented advisers from the United States as the basic constitutional value of the rule of law," said Bastrykin. In his opinion, the criteria that determine the ratio of international and national law should be determined "exclusively by the state of the state in the world political arena, as well as its strategic and geopolitical interests."

The head of the Investigative Committee considers the right to be a "tool of influence" filled with a certain ideological content. The introduction through international law of "alien values" leads, according to Bastrykia, to even greater discharge.

On February 26, Bastrykin at the College of the Investigative Committee said that the principle of an unconditional priority of international law on national legislation contradicts Russia's interests . In the opinion, international events of recent times show that Western politicians skillfully use this principle against the interests of Russia. The abolition of this "sabotage of legal regulation", as the head of the Investigative Committee put it, would return "to the best traditions of domestic legal proceedings."

The head of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov called the initiative of Bastrykin untimely.

“This is impossible to do this. In order to implement this idea, you need to accept a new constitution. I think that now is not the time to do this,” Fedotov said.

In December 2013, the priority of international rule of law over national legislation was made by Evgeny Fedorov deputy. He intended to introduce appropriate amendments to the Law "On the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation" the deputy will submit to the State Duma during the spring session. United Russia was perplexed, by virtue of which Russia refuses "a significant part of its own sovereignty."

“We amend the law on the Constitutional Court so that the Constitutional Court of Russia is not guided by foreign legislation in Russia. We call them“ pre -controversial ”, that is, in the future we will work them out under the Constitution,” says Fedorov.

The first deputy chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation of the State Duma, Socialist Revolutionary, Alexander Ageev supported the initiative of Fedorov. Legislation must be protected "from certain generally recognized norms of international law," he said. However, subsequently, such a bill was not reported to the State Duma.