Political and legal mechanisms for the formation of Russian constitutional identity in the conditions of information society

Abstract

Introduction. Problems of the formation and preservation of Russian national constitutional identity are becoming topical in the context of the development of digital technologies that promote the dissemination of information products of mass consumption, relativistic values, and the use of manipulative tools to influence public consciousness. Theoretical analysis. In modern scientific discourse, the concept of “national constitutional identity” is used in three senses: firstly, as the self-identity of the Constitution; secondly, as a set of criteria for the permissible impact on the constitutional legal order by supranational institutions (international organizations, interstate bodies of integration unions, etc.); thirdly, as a system of spiritual, moral and political-legal values inherent in the nation and reflected in the text of the Constitution. Empirical analysis. The specifics of the formation of national constitutional identity in the conditions of information society are considered in relation to all three concepts described above. Results. The main mechanisms for the formation and preservation of the Russian national constitutional identity include the constitutionalization of information and legal relations, the protection of digital sovereignty, and the axiological dimension of processes characteristic of the information society.

Keywords

• constitutional identity
• self-identity of the constitution
• delimitation of sovereign and communitarian jurisdictions
• constitutionalization of moral values
• information society
• digital sovereignty