FORMS OF POLITICAL COOPERATION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES IN THE FIELD OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION: WAYS OF DEVELOPING DIALOGUE OF THE PARTIES

Abstract

The research relevance is justified by the fact that the intensification of Russia's dialogue with the Central Asian countries (including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) in a bilateral and multilateral format, both in the field of politics, economics, and in the humanitarian sphere, is Russia's geopolitical priority in the post-Soviet space. It is revealed that despite the recognized importance of ensuring the protection of intellectual property as the means of preserving and accumulating the national spiritual wealth in the framework of humanitarian cooperation between Russia and the countries of Central Asia, as well as a large number of connections between scientific, educational institutions and projects of the parties, the potential for cooperation between the parties in this field, both in bilateral and multilateral formats, is not sufficiently transparent.

Purpose: to identify tools to improve the mechanism for intellectual property protection based on agreements between Russia and Central Asian countries.

Methods: quantitative, qualitative analysis, structural-functional analysis, case-study, comparative studies. The application of structural-functional analysis method allowed for establishing a correlation between the provisions of bilateral agreements between Russia and the countries of Central Asia. Case-study was used for identifying ways to develop cooperation between the parties in the field of intellectual property protection. A comparative study of bilateral agreements and provisions of strategic documents of Russia and the Central Asian countries in the field of intellectual property protection is important to identify the degree of engagement into dialogue between the parties in the area under research.

Results. The issue of the efficient use of multilateral format of humanitarian cooperation of the parties in the field of intellectual property protection, where Russia will act as one of the parties, and all the Central Asian countries as the other party, has been found debateable. However, the development level of the dialogue between the parties in humanitarian and other fields, being deeply historically rooted, provides for the conclusion of the expedience of introducing such a format of humanitarian cooperation, however, only after bilateral agreements are signed between Russia and the Central Asian countries in the field of intellectual property protection property, considering the specifics of each of the Central Asian countries and the specifics of their bilateral relations with Russia in the humanitarian field.