The Arctic: Institutional and Legal Participation of the Public

Abstract

Information, political, and legal principles of establishing and developing the status of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation require a comprehensive approach on the part of both the State and the public. A contemporary civil society has the necessary potential to assist and participate in the protection and securing of the rights and legitimate interests of citizens living in the Arctic and adjacent northern territories. Issues of formation of organizational and legal principles, means, methods, forms of inclusion of public structures in the processes of servicing the Arctic space deserve specific examination on behalf of branch scholars and general theory of law. The author of the paper ensures the reader that the establishment of a legal framework for the use of public initiatives through entrepreneurship, national-cultural associations, indigenous peoples of the North, other public structures in the field of development of the Arctic zone requires systematic law-making monitoring and effective law enforcement. Active forms of democracy and public-private partnership should be actively used to strengthen the sovereignty and the Russian Federation presence in the Arctic zone.