Abstract: This article examines security as the constitutional-legal category through the prism of its consolidation alongside the derivative concepts (national security, public security, environmental safety, and other) in the text of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Special attention is given to the evolution of the category of “security” in the Constitution of the Russian Federation in the context of amendments introduced in 2020, which also affected constitutional framework of ensuring security. However, the subject of research does not include the question on the need and feasibility of amending the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 2020, as well as implementation of such significant changes without its full revision. The author concludes that from the perspective of improving the constitutional framework of security, it is difficult to assess the constitutional amendments unambiguously. On the one hand, question od security was left out, and some of its aspects were reflected in the text of the Constitution, although the pivotal questions of ensuring security could have been regulated by the constitutional norms in more detail. The author notes that according to the Constitution, the major threat to the individual, society and the state regardless the introduced amendments, is the threat of military nature. In that context, the fundamentals of countering security threats of nonmilitary nature should be reflected in the Constitution more constructively.

Abstract: This research concentrates on the methodological aspects of research on transportation security and its components within legal studies. The author analyzes security as a scientific problem, and explores the questions of scientific research on the problems of security in various branches of science, describing the process of establishment of security science in Russian and some foreign countries (on the example of Poland). Special attention is given to the security research issues in various legal studies. Specific methods of research of the legal insurance of transportation security is analyzed with consideration of its multifaceted nature. The scientific novelty consists in the analysis of specific peculiarities of research on legal insurance of transportation security and description of the corresponding peculiarities of the methodology of such research. A conclusion is made that using specific methodology of conducting legal research on ensuring transportation security will affect the quality and the scientific level of the acquired results.