Priorities of the commonwealth of independent states — constitutional foundations of architecture

The general directions of their development are fixed in the statutory documents of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. One of the modern ways of such concretization is the term "priority". The article provides a correlation of similar terms used in constitutional texts to identify relevant areas and issues that need to be addressed: constitutional values, the foundations of the constitutional order and constitutional tasks. Based on the analysis of the constitutional texts of the states of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the author's vision of several constitutional models of the term priority and its essence is proposed. The variety of grounds for classifying priorities fi xed in the legislation of the CIS countries allowed us to propose a conclusion about the existence of their system and the author's definition of the priority system of the countries studied, to name the system-forming factors. The identified common approaches to determining relevant tasks and ways to determine them. Legitimate questions have been identified about the interdependence and hierarchy of priorities and values, the need to develop criteria, mechanisms for consistency of a diverse and multilevel system of priorities and guarantees of their uniform implementation — the basis for the unity of the legal space. In our opinion, they should become the basic foundations in the emerging doctrine, along with the responsibility of joint actions of the leaders of the Commonwealth countries and targeted interaction of bodies. In particular, the proposed positions can become the basis for the formation and incorporation into national science of the common doctrine of constitutional priorities of the Commonwealth countries.