RESOURCES OF NEOTRADITIONALISM IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL PROCESSES IN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC

Abstract

The article substantiates the thesis that the classical constitutional and legal analysis does not allow to satisfactorily explain the legal and political processes taking place in the post-Soviet period in the Kyrgyz Republic. Their comprehension is carried out within the framework of the political-anthropological approach. The review of numerous editions of the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic shows the formation of a conceptual and regulatory framework for neotraditionalization, within which national traditions are considered as the basis for the development of the state. The process of institutionalization of relations built on the principles of traditional values through the inclusion of the People's Kurultai and kurultais of local communities in the political system of the Kyrgyz Republic is characterized. The conclusion is substantiated that in the presence of a tendency to introduce a pro-Western model of democratization, attempts to maintain a pro-Russian orientation, there is a strengthening of the ideology and practice of neotraditionalism. This suggests that further constitutional and legal processes in the Kyrgyz Republic will develop along their own trajectory.