PRIVATE-LAW RELATIONS: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS AND MAIN ELEMENTS OF THE MECHANISM OF FORMATION Okriashvili Timur Giorgievich, postgraduate student at Theory and History of State and Law chair. <...> Place of study: Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Law department. <...> Email: okriashvili@yandex.ru Annotation: The article is devoted to the overall performance of private relations and major elements of the mechanism of their formation. <...> The study found that the current problems of Russian society, such as the growth of national security threats, the activity of corruption, the lack of a common national idea, and so, of course, can not affect the specific content of private law relations in the Russian legal validity. <...> For the first time in the work presented an approach to understanding the mechanism of formation of private law relations in terms of the unity of its structure and the impact of external factors. <...> The main principles of the national idea in the field of private law in the Russian Federation. <...> Based on a comprehensive analysis of the mechanism of formation of legal relations in the sphere of private law, the author presents the findings of the study. <...> В исследовании установлено, что актуальные проблемы российского общества, такие как рост угроз национальной безопасности, активное проявление коррупции, отсутствие единой национальной идеи и т.д., безусловно, не могут не сказаться на специфике содержания частноправовых отношений в российской правовой действительности. <...>