Purpose: The purpose of current work is to study the decriminalization of the agro-industrial complex as the most important factor in food security, as well as a way to solve problems affecting the state of food security of the Russian Federation, problems of legal support of national priorities related to food independence. Design/methodology/approach: The methodological basis of the research was formed by general scientific and private scientific methods. Findings: Today the agro-industrial sector is faced with a fundamentally new socio-economic and political-legal situation. It is not coordinated with the state policy in the field of agriculture, food production and food security, although initially this policy is intended to be a tool for the development, maintenance and functioning of the agro-industrial complex. Originality/value: The conducted research allowed us to draw the following conclusions: given the significant contribution of the agro-industrial complex to the national economy, it is self-sufficient and can develop independently; federal spending on said government support should provide agricultural producers with a margin that provides incentives to improve worker efficiency and an affordable credit system for the technical and technological upgrades of equipment needed to produce competitive goods; issues of increasing the competitiveness of agricultural products require solutions, first of all, at the federal legislative level.

Purpose: The purpose of this work is to establish, on the basis of a systematic analysis of the factors influencing the provision of legality, the elements of the modern deterministic complex of negative phenomena in lawmaking, law enforcement and judicial practice related to the effectiveness of law enforcement in the Russian Federation. Design/methodology/approach: The methodological basis of the study was the comparative-legal, statistical, structural-functional and method of expert assessments. Findings: Today in Russia, in the conditions of state-political transformations, the main functional burden for their successful implementation is placed on the rule of law as the main socializing regulatory institution. It has an extremely negative impact on the state of the legality of the problem in lawmaking and law enforcement. To understand the essence of these problems and minimize their consequences, the authors substantiate the need to study the identified issues within the framework of the concept of legal dementia. Legal dementia is such a state of compliance by subjects of law with the provisions of the law, which is characterized by a failure to some extent by state bodies not only to fulfill their functions, but also inability to respond due to a low level of competence and professionalism to factors that weaken the effectiveness of legal guarantees. Originality/value: The study made it possible to come to qualitatively new conclusions substantiating the dominance of legal dementia in the impact on the state of law in modern society. In order to increase the effectiveness of guarantees of legality, it is proposed to create a State Commission for the Codification of Legislation; to develop and implement the Concept for Ensuring the Rule of Law in the Russian Federation, which provides for a set of measures aimed at the uniformity of judicial practice.