Prospects for the Implementation of the Roerich Pact on the Territory of the CIS Member States

The search for new solutions of preserving the objects that constitute the treasure of national and world culture is on the agenda of international law in the context of contemporary global problems and taking into account the geopolitical changes of the 21st century, oriented towards the redistribution of the established world order through the use of military force and interethnic clashes. In this regard, appealing to the subject field of protecting the historical and cultural heritage of each nation individually and on a universal scale as a whole seems to be an extremely important and undoubtedly urgent task of scientific research. The above has a strong coupling with the need to conduct a more in-depth study of the array of organizational and legal instruments aimed at ensuring the safety of cultural monuments. The Roerich Pact, many provisions of which were further developed in the 1954 Hague Convention, provided an accumulated toolkit for the solution of a number of protective tasks in relation to cultural objects. At the regional level, the relevance of addressing the preservation of objects belonging to the historical and cultural heritage is predetermined by the process of centrifugal movement of individual states formed on the territory of the former unified union state (USSR) and moving in accordance with national doctrines on national sovereignty towards strengthening their identity. This circumstance indicates the advisability of including on the agenda the issue of the prospect of adapting the provisions of the Roerich Pact on the territory of the CIS member states to the current state of their interstate interaction, which corresponds to solving the problem of providing guarantees for maintaining in proper form the objects of historical and cultural heritage created in that region, including the joint work of various representatives from among the multinational Soviet people. In our opinion, the reconsideration of the mentioned problem emphasises the novelty of the presented research and testifies to the special significance of the practical use of the multifaceted field of international humanitarian law, aimed at identifying eventual "points of contact" between different CIS member states in terms of ensuring the preservation of objects of historical and cultural heritage.