The organization of state authority in the contested states of the republic of the former Soviet Union

The article considers the issues of constitutional development of the contested states of the CIS countries. The author tried to study the provisions of the constitutions of the contested states, the history of their formation and the tendencies of state building. The methodological basis of the study is a combination of methods, including dialectical, general scientific and private scientific methods of cognition. The author notes the orientation of the state development of the contested states towards Russia (except for the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the development of the state and law of which is entirely directed towards Armenia). There is a double jurisdiction over the exercise of public authority in the territories of the contested states (authorities of such entities and central authorities that do not control their territory). In the territories of the contested states, a high level of legal nihilism is observed, which is expressed in a large number of constitutional reforms, and the change of power in non-legal ways.