Relevance. The normative prescriptions formed in the subjects of federal states, including in the subjects of the Russian Federation, acquiring a legislative form in accordance with their constitutions, under the conditions of the right granted to these subjects to carry out “their own legal regulation” (Part 4 of Article 76 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation), form a fundamentally new — their own level of legislative regulation in the regions, which is noticeable It also modernizes the role of federal legislation in the system of regulatory regulators of public relations. Widely practiced in the subjects of the Russian Federation and other federal states, the principle of its own legislative regulation brings its positive results. Goal. In a comparative legal context, to substantiate that, thanks to the legislative form of legal regulation formed by the subjects of the federation in a single legal space, favorable conditions are created for the implementation of the constitutional principle of equality in specific relations, which, in turn, contributes to strengthening the unity of the Russian federal state. Methods. The obtained conclusions are based on dialectical, logical, systemic, sociological, as well as comparative legal, formal legal, legal interpretation, statistics and other research methods. Results. The distinctive features, meaning, content, positive role and practical significance of their own legislative regulation in the subjects of federal states are revealed. Arguments are presented confirming that the own legislative regulation in the subjects of the Russian Federation, carried out in the form of specifying federal laws and supplementing them with new content, contributes to strengthening the integrity of the federal state and its sovereignty and as such acts as a key link in the system of regulatory regulators in the regions. The results obtained are new and have practical significance. In this aspect, legal regulation in the subjects of the Russian Federation has not been considered in the scientific literature.
law, lawmaking, federal state, subjects of federations, own legal regulation in the subjects of the Russian Federation, legislative level of legal regulation, equality, harmonization of federal legislation in the regions
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