The study analyzes strategies established by the Arctic states (Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russian Federation, and USA) for development of their northern regions, with emphasis to food security issues of the Siberian Arctic regions in Russia, specifically Far North area of Krasnoyarsk Krai. Of particular interest is the state of food supply to aforementioned areas. The authors put forward the measures to actively involve the population of the Arctic regions and indigenous peoples of the Far North in the self-procurement of food by utilizing of indigenous subsistence economy products.

The paper has examined the federal legislation, as well as law enforcement related to such a measure of constitutional and legal responsibility of the head of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation as removal from the position of the governor by the President of the Russian Federation due to loss of trust. The paper analyzes the evolution of legal consolidation and application of this constitutional and legal sanction for the period from 2005, the bases and mechanism of its implementation, as well as a number of problems related to the practice of its application in Russia. The author has identified gaps and conflicts (contradiction of the grounds of this constitutional sanction to the main and basic legal principles of direct democracy and presumption of innocence), has analyzed “uncertainty” (revealed the legal fictiousness of the grounds for the loss of trust) and “amorphousness” of its application (inconsistency of the procedure of prosecution with the principles of federalism, norms of criminal procedure legislation and internal conflict of norms of law, i.e. “corruptional” grounds of the loss of trust). The author suggests a different model of application of such a sanction as removal from the position of the head of the constituent entity. Thus, he suggests that deprivation of the President of the right to remove the governor of the constituent entity due to the loss of trust for corruption contradicts the foundations of the federal system and the legal nature of the institute of higher official of a constituent entity. It is proposed to assign the right to apply this sanction to the highest representative (legislative) body of the constituent entity of the Federation, permitting the President of Russia to remove the senior officer for promulgation of legal acts that do not comply with the Constitution and federal laws (confirmed by a court decision) and failure to comply with the decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.

New proposals of the Government of the Russian Federation on reorganisation of the territories with traditional nature use by indigenous peoples require analysis and discussion among the scientific community. The legislative model of federal, regional and municipal territory with traditional nature use are developed and described by applying comparative law tools. Through the methods of statistical analysis, emerging tendencies on actual implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples to use the land and other natural resources within the borders of these areas and within the territories of their native residence, which are not considered to be territories of traditional nature use legally, are illustrated. For the new economic environment in Russia, which is oriented on increasing exploration of the North resources, it is necessary to back up exercising of the rights of indigenous minorities guaranteed by the Article 69 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. In particular, on the federal level there should be established general principle characteristics of the legal regime on the territory with traditional nature use similar to a subject in the territorial division of the Russian Federation. The integral legal regime of the territories with traditional nature use should include obligatory formation of such territorial units in the settlements of indigenous peoples, taking into account the current land and other natural resources management within the traditional economy as well as creation of a set of constraints in the others' economic activity, primarily, subsoil users and timber producers, within the territories with traditional nature use. The use of natural resources based on payment, authorization and licensing should be abolished for the indigenous peoples living in the territories with traditional nature use. It follows from the declaration of specific property right -an ethno-communal, non-marketed form of ownership of indigenous peoples of the land and other natural resources (another form of ownership provided by the Article 9(2) of the Constitution of the Russian Federation).

The article researches the urgent under modern conditions issues of legal regulation of food security of the Arctic regions of Russia the regions of the Far North of the Krasnoyarsk Territory in particular. Special attention focuses on the active involvement of the population of the Arctic areas and the indigenous peoples of the Far North in the food self-sufficiency with the use of the nature management production of indigenous peoples.

The article raises the issue of state sovereignty in a federal state and reveals its legal nature. The authors draw attention to the diversity of approaches to the concept and essence of sovereignty, reveal its correlation with related categories, describe the concepts of unity and divisibility of state sovereignty. The paper proves that sovereignty is not a quantitative, but a qualitative characteristic of a state, which is either present or not. The authors substantiate the exclusive possession of state sovereignty by the Russian Federation. Based on the analysis of the doctrinal, regulatory sources and the practice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the authors show that the Russian constitutional model explicitly outlines the principle of solid and indivisible state sovereignty spreading throughout the whole territory of the Russian Federation. Recognition of the principle of state sovereignty of Russia presupposes a clear definition of the scope of rights that the Federation should possess in order for its sovereignty to be ensured. The article examines the main features of the state sovereignty of Russia enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, among which are the supremacy of federal law over the law of the subjects of the Federation, the inviolability of borders and territorial integrity, the unity of the economic space, fiscal, banking and monetary systems, common army (Armed Forces), the right of the state to protect its sovereignty and rights of citizens. Despite the unequivocal decision on the integrity of state sovereignty of the Russian Federation expressed the Constitution of the Russian Federation and by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, this fundamental principle is not completely ensured since the idea of the sovereignty of the republics as components of Russia continues to retain its potential threat to Russian federalism, taking into account the provisions of Art. 73 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation that provide for the full state power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation