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Today the Federal Law «On Education in the Russian Federation» (hereinafter - the Law on Education) is the main law governing regulation the field of education. Regulations of this legal act are the power that forms the institutional ways of Russian education development and fix the values that are significant or should be significant for the Russian education. The article analyzes the standards of the Law on Education from the perspective of the value-based approach in order to determine what roles in education this law assigns to ethical values such as equality and freedom. Therefore, the object of this research is the norms of the Law on Education, and the subject of the research is the above ethical values’ roles in education in accordance with these legal norms. The main research methods are the analysis of normative legal documents and scientific literature on the topic, a comparative analysis of the legal norms of the Law on Education each other and with the norms of other normative legal documents, analysis (identifying the norms of the Law on Education that fix the roles of ethical values in education mentioned above) and synthesis (determining the roles of these ethical values in the education generally). The research has included two main stages: 1) identifying the norms of the Law on Education that fix the roles of mentioned ethical values, 2) comparison of these norms with each other and with the norms of other normative legal documents. n the article, the results of the research are divided into three sections, each of which refers to one of these values: equality and freedom. The research results the conclusion that the roles of ethical values are fixed inconsistently by the norms of the Law on Education, and there are some ethic contradictions between the norms of this legal act.