Sources of law: ideas existing in our country and problems of their rethinking

For the first time in post-Soviet time, an attempt has been made to assess the understanding of the sources of law existing in our country in terms of the new provisions of the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation. As a result, the author considers that the ideas of the sources of law existing in national legal science are inconsistent with modern scientific notions. According to the author, the current understanding of the sources of law ignores the provision of the Constitution of the Russian Federation on people as the bearer of sovereignty and the only source of power in Russian society. The proposals are formulated aimed at changing these perceptions in the field of understanding the sources of law and bringing them into line with the new provisions of the current Constitution of the Russian Federation.