MESSAGE
FROM THE HON. NIKOLAY FEDOROV MINISTER OF JUSTICE
OF
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
A new era has begun in
Russian history. Russia is ascending to a law based,
federative, democratic, market state. Economic and
political structures are changing dramatically. The
transitional period from communist doctrines and
totalitarism to diametrically different political and
legal, social and economic realities is very
complicating and contradicting. Effectiveness and
fruitfulness of such global social changes are
impossible without a total and radical transformation of
the legal area. This tendency today may be seen in the
profound legal reform which embraces all aspects of life
in our society.
The main direction of
legal reform in Russian Federation may be defined as
follows: in philosophy and sociology - doctrines of
natural and inalienable human rights; in economics and
politics - restriction of expansion of state by law; in
law and state - separation of powers, constitutionalism,
superiority of law. Summing up, one may say that the law
is becoming a part of culture.
It is obvious that the
process of establishing new legislation in Russia is
complicated by the fact that the world practice does not
know precedents of such a large scale replacement of one
legal system by the diametrically different one. In
addition, this has to be done very fast without halting
political, economic, legal, social and other aspects of
life in the society. Absence of world experience in this
respect excludes availability of the precise recipes
aimed to lead to the final goal.
Our goal at ARLI is to
give an opportunity to foreign lawyers, businessmen,
scholars and politicians to receive direct access to
Russian legislation and enable them to apprehend modern
legal realities in the Russian Federation. Progress of
international relations of Russia with the world
community directly depends upon acquaintance of our
foreign partners with Russian legislation in effect.
ARLI provides the missing link and serves like a compass
to enable you to choose the right direction leading
through the legislation to mutual understanding,
cooperation and entrepreneurial success in Russia.
