“Pravova derzhava”. Issue 35 (2024), pages 375–384.

DOI: 10.33663/0869-2491-2024-35-375-384

Skrypniuk Olexandr
On the issue of the russian federation’s political regime defining in Ukrainian law

The process of developing a regulatory framework that can be conditionally defi ned as anti-russian in Ukraine began around 2014. The array of anti-russian legislation in Ukraine has become a legal response to such intentions of the russian federation. The main purpose of several of the adopted laws is to prevent and counteract russia’s destructive actions for Ukrainian statehood within the framework of national security, national stability, ethnic policy, and memory policy. Direct signs of russia’s political regime as undemocratic, dictatorial, and even totalitarian appeared in Ukrainian legislation after russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The aim of the article is to examine the peculiarities of defi ning the political regime of the russian federation in Ukrainian legislation by analysing the essential and substantive content of certain laws on this issue. The methodology is based on legal and comparative analysis. Using a political and legal analysis of the essence and content of laws, the author establishes that rashism is a legally inaccurate, umbrella term that denotes two diff erent phenomena at the same time: a type of totalitarian ideology and a type of political regime. The Ukrainian parliament has created a contradiction in the norms of Ukrainian legislation in terms of defi ning the Russian political regime. The document is intended to condemn racism both as an ideology and as a racist political regime of the President of the russian federation. At the same time, legal scholars and practitioners are advocating the introduction of the term “rashism” into scientifi c and everyday discourse as a defi nition of a political ideology, not a political regime. In this regard, it is recommended that the term “rashism” be used to refer to the political ideology that crystallized during the functioning of putin’s authoritarian political regime (putinism).

Key words: russian federation, political regime, authoritarian regime, political ideology, rashism, putinism.

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