Some Issues of Territorial Organization of State Power in Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation

Abstract

The article deals with the composition of territories and boundaries of administrative-territorial units, and the analysis carried out by the author leads to the conclusion that in contemporary Russian legal reality differences between the municipal-territorial and administrative-territorial organization of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation are formal and, to a certain degree, artificial. However, at the same time, when defining a number of the most important issues of human life as a circle of tasks being solved at the level of local self-government, that is, in essence, relying on the constitutional understanding of local self-government and offering residents (citizens) to decide for themselves, the federal legislator does not provide local people with the mechanisms of implementation of their right to local self-government, as well as it does not vest necessary powers in local self-government bodies. Territorial subdivisions of government bodies exercising their powers in the territories of municipalities are not accountable to the bodies of local self-government. The general conclusion is that, formally, the public authority in a municipality belongs to its inhabitants and is implemented by them through local self-government, and, in fact, it is exercised by local state bodies that exist in the state of "separation" from local residents.