Simakov A.A. The activities of border authorities of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in protection of foreign states’ borders

Abstract: The research subject is the activity of border authorities of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in protection of the borders of foreign states. The author analyzes legal regulation of the activities of border authorities and officials of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation from the position of administrative-legal regulation. The paper presents the author’s positions on the authorities of the officials of the Federal Security Service’s border agencies in foreign states in the sphere of state borders protection, as long as this activity is regulated by the national legislation of these states. The author pays attention to the fact that the significant part of authorities of Russian border guards is not regulated at all, either by the national legislation or by international treaties. The research methodology comprises theoretical and general philosophical methods (dialectics, the system method, analysis, synthesis, observation, and modeling), and legal methods (formal logical). The author concludes that on the post-Soviet space a heterogeneous situation had developed in the sphere of state borders protection; the former USSR’s state borders protection priority was placed on the external borders of the CIS member-states apart from the Baltic states which started equipping the state border with the Russian Federation in the first instance. The need for the CIS’s external borders protection and the impossibility to perform this function on their own in the 1990s explains the presence of Russian border troops in foreign states. The author of the study analyzes the activities of border authorities and officials of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in protection of borders of foreign states. The author substantiates the possibility to apply Russian legislation, including the administrative one, beyond the borders of the Russian Federation; the author defines the peculiarities of organizing and performing their work by the border authorities of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the protection of foreign states’ borders, as long as heterogeneous conditions had formed on the post-Soviet space. 

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