Specificity of State-Confessional Relations in Russia (The End of the Xx - The Beginning of the Xxi Century)

The article provides a comprehensive analysis of state-confessional relations in modern Russia. The study has interdisciplinary nature and is conducted at the intersection of religious studies, political science and jurisprudence. It is shown that the Russian model of these relations contains elements of three classical models: identification, cooperative and separation. The paper analyses normative legal acts of state and municipal authorities in the sphere of freedom of conscience and state-confessional relations. The authors tackle the problem of presence of the identification model elements in the post-Soviet legal acts (including those ceased to be in force). Peculiarities of agreements between religious communities and bodies of power are identified. The findings allow concluding that at the federal level, prevalence belongs to the separation model and at the regional level - to the cooperative one.