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The recent history of our state has been accompanied for a long time by a constant search for the place and role of local selfgovernment in the system of both public administration and the formation of a full-fledged civil society in Russia. This search is accompanied by the transformation of not only the legislative framework of local self-government, its basic provisions and institutions, but also a serious change in the constitutional and legal interpretation of the regulations on local self-government by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, which subsequently contributed to the appearance in 2020 of amendments to Chapter 8 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the subsequent integration of local self-government bodies into a unified system of public authority, in many ways, forming a counterbalance to the constitutional guarantees of the independence of local self-government and its separation from the system of state power. The author's brief historical and legal analysis shows that the federal legislator has an incomplete understanding of the concept of local self-government, its substantive, organizational, economic and other foundations, which can be a serious obstacle to the implementation of the “updated” text of the norms of Chapter 8, which in their absolute number are now tied to the will of the federal legislator.
Oleg Kozhevnikov (Thu,) studied this question.