The specifics of implementing international legal provisions on corruption (using the CIS as an example)

Abstract

                The article examines the specific features of the implementation of international legal norms on combating corruption in the legal space of the CIS. It reveals the doctrinal understanding of implementation as a system of legal and institutional measures ensuring the operation of an international norm within the domestic legal order. Particular attention is paid to the regional adaptation of universal anti-corruption standards through CIS model acts, which translate general international obligations into legal constructions close to the states of the post-Soviet space. The study is based on doctrinal sources, universal international acts on combating corruption, CIS model laws, and the legislation of the Russian Federation. The doctrinal, system-structural, historical-legal, formal-legal, and comparative-legal methods were used. It is established that CIS model acts form an intermediate level between universal international legal norms and the national legislation of the member states. Using the Russian Federation as an example, the article shows that the provisions of CIS model laws are reflected in the legal component of implementation through the consolidation of anti-corruption duties, restrictions, declaration procedures, expert review, and monitoring, and in the institutional component through the creation of bodies for coordination, control, and corruption prevention. The article concludes that the implementation of international legal norms on combating corruption in the CIS legal space has a multi-level character and that regional adaptation functions as an independent stage of their realization.