Interpretation of Law: Problems of Theory, Legal Regulation and Law Enforcement

The article analyzes scientific and legislative approaches to the concept and meaning of interpretation of the norms of law, its role in law enforcement activities both in the modern legal reality of the Russian Federation and in the periods of the Russian Empire and the USSR. The thesis is argued that the interpretation of the highest judicial authorities has never been considered and today is not recognized as a form of law. It is shown that the acts of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on the interpretation of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, on the assessment of compliance with its regulations or international treaties before 2020 were not binding. The study used the dialectical-materialistic method of cognition, methods of analysis, synthesis and deduction. Using the formal-legal and system-structural method, the peculiarities of the legal regulation of the application and use of acts with normative properties were revealed.It is argued that in the absence of a mechanism for monitoring the content of decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on the interpretation of the Constitution of the Russian Federation or the compliance of normative acts with it, it is inappropriate to give such interpretations a generally binding meaning. It is shown that the interpretation of the Constitution of the Russian Federation by the Constitutional Court may depend not only on the composition of the court, but also on the prevailing political situation in the state.The phrase «acts of federal bodies having regulatory properties» was introduced into legal force by Resolution No. 6-P of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation dated March 31, 2015 and subsequently fixed in legislation. The thesis on the inexpediency of assigning such «acts» the property of general obligation and the possibility of their publication in the form of letters is substantiated.