RECEPTION OF THE INSTITUTES OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL MECHANISM FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN UKRAINE

INTRODUCTION The current stage of state building in Ukraine is characterized by qualitative changes in the institutional design of the constitutional mechanism of public power where the human rights institutions take the leading place. The process of constitutional and legal modernization in the context of the tendencies of global constitutionalism is accompanied by the reception of ideas, doctrines, concepts and institutions focused on building a democratic organization of the society, ensuring the rule of law, recognition of human rights and freedoms as the highest social value, and optimizing the mechanism of guarantee and protection of human rights and freedoms. Constitutional-legal modernization is in fact a combination of qualitative changes of the legal system, and this process is therefore impossible without the use of the international experience and the reception of positive achievements of the advanced democracies. The problem of the reception has become especially relevant in the context of Ukraine’s foreign policy towards European integration, which in its turn requires to harmonize, the national legislation of Ukraine with that of the European Union. Thus, in 2014, Ukraine ratified the Association Agreement with the European Union and finally embarked on the path of European integration and, as stated in the Parliament’s statement, «the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine considers ratification of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union not only as a stimulating factor for further reforms in Ukraine, but also as a further step on the way to achieving the ultimate goal of European integration – gaining full membership in the European Union». In addition, in