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This article is focusing on the analysis of the current EU legal instruments which can be used for the protection of the rule of law, their effectiveness and certain limits, as well as proposals de lege ferenda. Especially the procedure contained in Article 7 TEU is designated to deter Member states from the violation of principles of rule of law by a mechanism, which can amount to even the suspension of their voting rights in the Council. Although the fact, that this instrument doesn’t imply the judicial procedur...

Above all, this article analyses the distinction of the contemporary Russian political and legal transition from state-centered social structure to human-centered society. The former presupposes that sociopolitical relations are subject to the etatization of socium and individuals and laws substantially limit human freedoms. The latter is based on the priority of human rights and freedoms, which is fundamental for a social state of law. In the 1990s there were certain efforts to approach the second type of develop...

Rule of law has been designed as a construction mainly aiming at observing the rights and freedoms of individuals, by protecting them and ensuring general balance where everyone obeys state law and no one is above the law. The amount of legislation, the political power interested in satisfying its own interests, which are frequently in opposition with the general interests of individuals, the shaping of the various groups of interests that try to impose their own will, are harmful factor that endanger the very exi...