Abstract: In the modern research space, the BRICS interstate association is the object of increased attention of scientists of various specializations, including legal scholars. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of a few articles by Russian legal scholars published in domestic journals from 2012 to 2024. The criteria for selecting articles were the Russian language of publication, the presence of the abbreviation "BRICS" in the title or resume of the work, full access to the text in the scientific electronic libraries "Cyberleninka" and "Elibrary.ru" belonging to the thematic section "OECD – Law". The review will make it possible to diagnose the structure and state of the publication situation in relation to BRICS as an object of domestic legal research, to determine the prospects for further research. The research methodology is based on the application of content analysis, classification, induction and deduction methods. The empirical basis is represented by 131 scientific articles published in the period from 2012 to 2024. The novelty of the study is determined by the fact that there are no review articles regarding the publication situation on legal issues related to BRICS in the domestic research field. As a result of the study, it was established that there is diverse scientific interest in relation to BRICS, which is positioned as an object of analysis in two aspects – as a monolithic independent subject of international relations and as a conglomerate of member countries. The analysis of the problems of the reviewed scientific articles made it possible to determine the presence of both relatively well-developed subject areas (in particular, the organizational and legal essence of the BRICS, intellectual property and legal aspects of digitalization and artificial intelligence in the BRICS countries), and other areas in which potential authors have wide research prospects.

Keywords: subject of international relations, analysis, review, publication situation, legal status, interstate association, legal research, scientific articles, BRICS, conglomerate of member countries

Abstract: The subject of the study is the generalization and analysis of domestic and foreign literature on international humanitarian law, which examines the international legal regulation of the use of landmine weapons, established restrictions and prohibitions on their use, in order to prepare motivated proposals on the possibility of improving the legal mechanism for solving the mine problem in modern conditions. In general, there are a considerable number of publications on the subject under consideration, the subject of which are various aspects of the mine problem. At the same time, the characteristic of the international legal regulation of the use of landmine weapons is often reduced to stating the provisions of Protocol II to the Convention on "Conventional" Weapons and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Ottawa Convention). Mainly, there is an opposition of these documents in favor of the Ottawa Convention. With regard to the latter, there are also studies, mostly foreign, very complimentary describing the process of preparation and adoption of the Ottawa Convention, the participation of foreign non-governmental organizations in it. The author's position on this and other issues is stated in the study.  For the purposes of generalization and analysis of the works of domestic and foreign authors, formal-legal, formal-logical, comparative-legal research methods are used. The novelty of the study is due to its subject. Proposals on the availability of potential, the possibility of further development of international legal regulation of the turnover of landmine weapons are based on the generalization and analysis of the studies presented in the work on two main areas of solving the mine problem - humanitarian demining and the actual regulatory regulation of the turnover of landmine weapons. In the first case, we are talking mainly about using the achievements of scientific and technological progress, the latest developments. The development of the existing regulatory framework for regulating the turnover of mine weapons is associated with a prerequisite for ensuring the complementary nature of the two main treaties – the use of basic definitions in them that have identical content. At the same time, the fact is emphasized that overcoming the crisis of international humanitarian law in general, the implementation, in particular, of relevant initiatives to solve the mine problem, are conditioned by the presence of a real, equivalent alternative to the collective West.

Keywords: Ottawa Convention, Protocol II, restrictions and prohibitions, mine-weapons trafficking, humanitarian demining, land-mine weapons, mine problem, local wars, international humanitarian law, collective West