The Legal System of the Union State of Belarus and Russia: New Synergy and Development Prospects

The creation of the Union State of Belarus and Russia has become a new geopolitical challenge for representatives of the international community who promote the values of the unipolar world. Integration processes are becoming particularly relevant in the context of the formation of a new type of global legal order. The formation of the Union State of Belarus and Russia has taken a long period, showing the viability of the integration formation between two close countries, as well as problems that need to be solved to ensure the further sustainable development of this community in the international arena. One of the urgent tasks is the formation of a single legal space of the Union State, the form of which is the common legal system of the participating states. In modern conditions of integration cooperation between the two countries, it is not enough to create only one component of the common legal system in the form of the “Law of the Union State”. It is necessary to introduce an integrated approach to the simultaneous formation of all other traditional links of the integration legal system – the general type of law‑making activity, unified law enforcement bodies and mechanisms, as well as identification links of legal ideology and legal psychology within the framework of the national legal consciousness of the Belarusian‑Russian society. The article discusses the issues of the formation of the legal system of the Union State as a result of the synergetic interaction of the national legal systems of Belarus and Russia. A model of this legal association is proposed in the form of an independent system of “Union law”, a single lawmaking and law enforcement components. Special attention is paid to the priority formation of a system of industries of an economic nature, as well as to the need for the actual creation of the Court of the Union State. The problems of the formation of a common type of legal awareness are touched upon.