Legal regulation of historical policy: foreign experience

• Ekaterina S. Besedina

  Ekaterina S. Besedina. Altai State University. Barnaul. Russia

• Anton A. Vasiliev

  Anton A. Vasiliev. Altai State University. Barnaul. Russia

The study examines foreign legislation in the field of historical policy. The relevance of the research topic is driven by the increasing role of laws that establish official positions on historical events. Such laws are increasingly being used as tools of political struggle, both within states and in international conflicts. The research subject is the legal norms of foreign countries regulat-ing his torical policy. The study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of laws and other regulatory acts in this field and to develop a classification sys-tem. The research employs systematic analysis, dialec tical and logical methods, formal-legal (dogmatic) methodology, as well as comparative-legal and his-torical methods. As a result, the author systematizes approaches to legal regula-tion in the field of historical policy and proposes a classification framework. Despite the existence of a body of re search on this topic, most studies remain theoretical in nature. Scholars primarily explore the con cept of "historical pol-icy" and analyze various approaches to it, while other researchers focus only on specific types of memory laws. The novelty of this study lies in its comprehen-sive analysis of the entire body of foreign laws aimed at codifying attitudes to-ward historical events. The findings may be useful in the development of Rus-sian legislation regulating historical policy and in formulating measures to counter the falsification of history by foreign states. The study also identifies shortcom ings in existing foreign legal norms related to historical policy. Keywords: historical policy, memorial law, memory politics.