Legal consolidation of the new essence of the concepts of foreign language, enemy language, hostile language and their interpretation in the national legislation of post-Soviet republics

Having conquered national freedom and sovereignty, the post-totalitarian Soviet republics that were part of the communist empire - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – actively began to solve the problem of preserving their identity at the legislative level. One of these directions was the consolidation in national legislation of the status and functioning of the language of the state-building people and other languages, which was relevant in the post-Soviet republics. It was this problem that became the subject of analysis for the author of the article. The researcher approached the disclosure of the essence of this problem comprehensively, using cause-and-effect relationships, involving factual material of history and modernity, modern philosophical and legal principles of classification of language and language rights, and national legislation as the main legal source base. The scientist found out the factors of the emergence of new definitions in the legislation of countries that embarked on the path of democratic development and preservation of the nation-state. The author of the study analyzed in the system of language rights the new essence of the interpretation of “foreign language”, “enemy language”, “enemy language”, their status and functioning, enshrined at the legislative level in the post-Soviet republics. She emphasized the individual approach of countries to solving this problem, although their goal was the same: preserving their identity, ensuring the prosperity of the nation and the state, and making it impossible to revive the previous empire. The researcher did not miss the importance of Ukraine’s use of experience to resolve language rights on its territory. The purposeful and consistent encroachment of the enemy, the aggressor-occupier on the history, sovereignty and territory of Ukraine, the destruction of the Ukrainian people and them as a sovereign state is one of its main tasks. If this does not happen, a lot depends on decisive actions at the level of legislative and executive authorities, the maturity of civil society and their consciousness. The legal scholar draws convincing conclusions. The realities of history and the current state of global turbulent politics require new approaches to improving language rights. It is necessary to take into account the modern theoretical and methodological generalizations of scientists regarding the classification of languages, their status and functioning in national countries, which have embarked on a democratic path, as a constituent part of humanity, with the aim of their national development, in particular, and human civilization in general.