The role of international legal acts in the formation of the system of sources of Russia's penal law

The article aims at analysing the role of international legal norms in the system of sources of the Russian Federation, with a special stress on their importance among the sources of national law. To date, international legal acts directly affect the policy of legislation and are in its priority, thereby forming an independent legal system. This system brings domestic national policy, which includes penal legislation, in line with the acts. The author infers that, in Russian legal science, including penal science, international legal norms are of a national nature. In their own way, they are stable, since they are not exposed to possible influences of any economic, political, or criminological factors. Therefore, in recent decades, this direction has been the main guideline for the development of penal science, which directly affects the law enforcement practice. When analysing the current Penal Code of the Russian Federation, this trend can be traced in some norms whose content is based on the ideas of humanism and enshrines the basic rules for the treatment of various categories of convicts. Looking at Russia today, we can note that the country has created a legal framework that allows it to be classified as a great power that directs the development of the penal system in the modern world. The formation of a new better penal system is undoubtedly facilitated by the adoption of international standards that require the creation of the necessary conditions that in the future are to be implemented in legislation. After all, the recognition of international legal standards in penal legislation will bring Russia to a new level, with a more effective guarantor of the observance of the legality of human rights, and will also serve as an impeccable postulate in the law enforcement and law-making activities of our state in the future.

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