. Legal security of a state as a special subject of Russian law.

Abstract: As President V.V. Putin once stated “we did not pay enough attention to the security and defence… and it is well known that it’s the weak who get beaten. Some want to get their share off us, others help them, since they consider Russia, being one of the nuclear weapon states, to still be a threat to someone”. As the author of this article points out, currently it’s the right to time for serious theoretical analysis of means and methods of ensuring state security of the Russian Federation. This article includes analysis of existing models of ensuring state security, key issues related to ensuring state securities, threats to Russian national security (criminal threats, terrorism). The author also studies such problems as control over intelligence services and protection of human rights, unity of legal territory.