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The subject. The article is devoted to research the legal nature of international treaties.The purpose of the article is to formulate the feasibility of determining the legal status of international treaties in the composition of the sources of law in terms of its unity.The methodology. The author uses the systematic approach to research, methods of anal-ysis and synthesis, including formal legal analysis of international treaties, Russian legislation and courts’ decisions.The main results and scope of their application. The analysis of the categories of legal act, the regulatory agreement, the international treaty, describing its characteristics, legal characteristics is performed. On the basis of the main legal characteristics of the category of normative legal acts, the expediency of inclusion of an international treaty to this category is proven. It is groundless to detach international treaties on normative legal acts, thereby reducing the extent of the need for their application. This, however, does not change the fact that the source of law in each legal system may have special characteristics depending on such system and complementing the basic characteristics. The international treaty is a legal act of international law. Such a conceptual approach to this issue allows making further conclusions.Conclusions. The author highlights the circumstances of the need for reasonable use of international treaties to resolve disputes, that are significant for the process of enforcement. This position is based on the proposed definition of an international treaty including it to the normative legal acts.

The article substantiates the necessity of a system analysis of the processes of applicationof the norms of international treaties by commercial courts of the Russian Federation. Thisneed is justified, at least, by the following: an insignificant amount of special research inthis field in comparison with a similar subject within the courts of general jurisdiction, thecreation of a relatively new body of supranational control over compliance with the normsof international treaties in the field of commercial courts’ practice.The purpose of the study is to identify problems of application of international treaties ofthe Russian Federation arbitration courts of Russia.The author uses methodology of formal legal analysis of Russian legislation and courts’ decisions.The results and scope of it’s application. The author, taking into account the specifics ofcommercial proceedings and the nature of disputes heard in commercial courts, proposedlegal grounds in a concentrated form which allow to state the existence of the obligation toapply the norms of international treaties by Russian commercial courts. Two levels of suchgrounds can be stated – international and domestic.Publication of the texts of international treaties as a problematic segment of their applicability.The article highlights one of the problematic segments of the application process ofthe norms of international treaties for the purpose of more detailed reflection. The practiceof commercial courts demonstrates that in both legislative acts and acts of applying law,the concepts of "official publication" and "bringing to the public" are alternated with eachother. Despite the reform, the procedure of official publication has not acquired the characterof a systemic institution of Russian law. This significantly complicates the activity ofadministering justice with respect to the legislative acts of international law.Conclusions. From the point of view of international law, the state, independently determiningthe procedure and methods of implementing international treaties within its legalsystem, is not limited in its ability to burden itself with the need to abide by additional proceduresnot provided by the international legal system of procedures. Official publication,as a necessary procedure for the entry of a legislative act into the force, represents such anadditional procedure designed to protect more effectively human rights and freedoms andto streamline law enforcement practice. In this connection, the author formulated the provisions,the implementation of which can help in matters of systematization of the institutionof official publication of international treaties of the Russian Federation.