Naruzhnaya E.A.

International agreements are actively used as a means of regulating relations between countries, on the one hand, and between participants within states, on the other. The work raises the questions of the qualifications of law enforcement officers, including employees of authorities, and, also, educational standards in the sphere of interaction of international and domestic law. The ideas about the place of the International Treaty of the Russian Federation in the national legal system are being analyzed. The author's opinion on the legal science controversial problems of positioning international treaties of the Russian Federation and the norms contained in them as the sources of constitutional law is presented in the article. The author's definition of the international treaty of the Russian Federation is proposed, while the concepts of «international treaty», «source of law», «signs of the source of constitutional law», «subject of constitutional law» are discussed. Based on the results of the study of relations within the subject of the constitutional law, the classification of such treaties is made. The study considers the issue of the relationship between the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the international treaty of the Russian Federation. The author concludes that the Constitution of the Russian Federation has the highest legal force in relation to the international treaty of the Russian Federation. An exception to this general rule may be the case of the establishment of a state on the basis of the international treaty.