Modeling Experiments and a Mix of Foreign Legal Concepts in the Post-Soviet Legal Space

In the modern world, law is not only a powerful mechanism for economic coordination, but also a means of establishing the states of dependence/connectedness of independent national legal systems and economies. This area remains unnoticed by legal scholars. To date, legal science has not provided justifications and explanations for the operation of even formal mechanisms of various forms of perception of ideas of foreign law, including borrowing, reception, and harmonization. There is also no answer to the main question about the actual degree of threat and risk to state sovereignty due to the continuity of foreign legal models. There is no description of the optimal process of perception of foreign law, which should be understandable and consistent. Initially, modern legal systems are linked both by their own traditions and the logic of the development of law, as well as by the framework of regional associations, which already excludes the free and arbitrary transfer of legal institutions in the dialogue of modern legal systems. The development of post‑Soviet law had its own significant features, which show the reasons for the lack of common principles and logic of the development of the law of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the stages of the formation of a new economic space through legal means. At the moment, it is possible to note the legal independence and at the same time the independence of the CIS member states in determining the priorities of the future development of civil legislation. At the same time, the claims about the absolutely free determination and choice by the CIS states of the directions and models of the development of civil legislation are not fully justified. The author saw the purpose of preparing this article in reviewing the general and particular features of the formation of civil law in the CIS, opening a discussion on the issues raised in search of optimal and alternative solutions.