ISSUES OF APPLICATION OF HAGUE CONVENTION OF 25 OCTOBER 1980 ON THE CIVIL ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION BY THE USA COURTS IN CASES OF RELOCATION OF CHILDREN TO USA FROM STATES, NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE CONVENTION Abashidze Aslan Huseinovich, Dr of law, professor. <...> E-mail: koneva_ae@pfur.ru Solntsev Alexander Mikhailovich, PhD at law, associate professor. <...> The aim of the research is to provide an analysis of dispute, considered by the USA court of the USA and dealing with the relocation of the child by one of the parents from the territory of Japan to the territory of the USA, as an eбample oП “ПillinР tСe Рap” in tСe leРal reРulation oП situations, to which the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (hereinafter – 1980 Convention) does not apply. <...> In particular, the article considers the issues of application of national family legislation of the USA to facilitate the process of returning the child, removed to the USA from the State not party to the Convention. <...> The research works of Russian legal scholars are mostly considering the issues of application of the 1980 Convention, including challenges facing the practical enforcement of this international treaty in the territory of the Russian Federation. <...> Meanwhile, little attention is given to examination of situations of international abduction of children, relating to the State not party to this treaty, and the ways of their solution. <...> In this relation the conduct of the mentioned research with the example of consideration by the USA court of the dispute on transnational child abduction represents a value in terms of searching for legal ways of resolution of situations of international abduction of children with the participation of States, in which relations with the Russian Federation the 1980 Convention does not apply, especially regarding the relations between Russia and the USA. <...> Special methods of science were also widely used, such as legal and technical method and comparative law method. <...> The decision of the USA court that was examined in the present article provides for the legal mechanism of resolution of situations, when the child was abducted from the State (Japan), who was not a party to the1980 Convention at the time of the illegal relocation, and moved to the USA. <...> This mechanism offers a way to resolve international child abduction cases, which may be applied in the United States by both US citizens and foreign nationals in cases, where the 1980 Convention can not be applied. <...> The example <...>