ABSTRACT
Confirming conformity to the conventional principles and standards of international law, the Constitution of the Russian Federation has recorded as a legal basis such civilized provisions as freedom of conscience and secularity of the state. The freedom of conscience is substituted for freedom of creeds, human rights – for the rights of associations, religion for ideology, in summary the priority of the right is substituted for a priority of politics, interests of "elites". Suppressing freedom of conscience the totalitarian regimes achieve transformation of a person into an instrument for achievement of purposes. Becoming of a civil society appreciably depends on a status of freedom of conscience and in particular its normative-legal base. Historically the realization of human rights in the sphere of freedom of conscience in general formation of corresponding legislative base in particular has very much depended on relations of the state with religious associations.
