Reservations to international human rights treaties.

The article considers an issue of legality of reservations, made by States to the international instruments on human rights and freedoms. The issue is estimated both by the existing possibilities of international instruments on personal rights as independent regulators of individual rights and freedoms, and by the position of the fundamental act in the field of the law of treaties - the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969. This is about the regime of inadmissible reservations as one of the most considerable gaps in this matter. In particular, it is about reservations, incompatible with the object and purpose of the treaty, in respect of which there is no document, establishing criteria for determination of compatibility with the treaty\'s provisions.A practice of the International Court of Justice in hearing of cases, involving the status of individuals, is given as examples of the legal analysis of the reservations practice, as well as of the European judicial authorities - the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Finally, the author comes to a conclusion on illegality of reservations, restricting the personal rights and freedoms, contradicting the obligations of States under these agreements.