TY - JOUR

T1 - Processes of Harmonization of the Eurasian Economic Community Member States’ Laws on Freedom of Conscience

AU - Smorgunova, Valentina Yu

AU - Dorskaia, Aleksandra A.

AU - Malysheva, Nataliya I.

AU - Orlova, Inna A.

AU - Pashentsev, Dmitriy A.

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - The article discusses possible ways of harmonizing the Eurasian Economic Community member states’ legislation on the freedom of conscience. It is shown that the basis of harmonization is common approach developed over the centuries in existence within a single state – The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, the legal documents of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the transfer of basic research from determining the signs of the secular state on to the development of individualistic and collective freedom of conscience. The current Law on Freedom of Conscience in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Federation is analyzed.

AB - The article discusses possible ways of harmonizing the Eurasian Economic Community member states’ legislation on the freedom of conscience. It is shown that the basis of harmonization is common approach developed over the centuries in existence within a single state – The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, the legal documents of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the transfer of basic research from determining the signs of the secular state on to the development of individualistic and collective freedom of conscience. The current Law on Freedom of Conscience in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Federation is analyzed.

KW - Eurasian Economic Community

KW - Freedom of Conscience

KW - The Secular State

KW - Church-State Relations

KW - Religious Organizations

M3 - Article

VL - 5

SP - 93

EP - 99

JO - International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues

JF - International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues

SN - 2146-4138

IS - 2S

ER -