THE PRINCIPLE OF NATIONAL LAW SYSTEMS EQUALITY AS A GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LAW Yulia Akimova, competitor. <...> Department: chair of private international law E-mail: yulia.akimova@mail.ru Annotation: The purpose of the article is to formulate and to justify the principle of national law systems equality as a general principle of international private law. <...> Each state possesses its own system of law, which differs of that from other states. <...> All the states must respect the right and freedom of another states to create its own system of law. <...> The national law systems equality should not depend on historical, cultural, religious, economic, political differences between the states. 254 systems equality are the following considerations: - the foreign systems of private law are equal to the national system of private law; - the foreign systems of private law are equal to one another. <...> Thus, the principle of national law systems equality is the necessary condition for applying of foreign law. <...> Keywords: international private law, conflict of laws, principles of law, principle of national law systems equality, foreign law. <...> Целью статьи является сформулировать и обосновать принцип равенства национального права различных государств как отраслевой принцип международного частного права. <...> Все государства должны уважать правомочие любого другого государства свободно создавать свою правовую систему. <...> Равенство правовых систем не может быть поставлено под сомнение в зависимости от исторических, культурных, религиозных различий между странами, равно как и от их политических или экономических отношений! <...>