Local Self-Government in Certain Territories in the Russian Federation (General and Special Aspects)

The scientific article deals with certain issues of constitutional and municipal law related to the peculiarities of the implementation of local self-government in closed administrative-territorial formations (CATF). The study is based on some aspects of the scientific concept of federal territories, which, according to the authors, are a social and legal structure that includes actually functioning and newly created public legal entities of national importance that perform strategic tasks in various spheres of state activity. Successfully applying dialectical methods of cognition and developing the scientific concept of federal territories, the authors propose and substantiate a system of mandatory legal criteria necessary for the recognition of certain territories as federal. A comprehensive analysis of the theory and practice of state and municipal construction in the field of CATF, as well as the methodology for constructing legal structures, allow the authors to come to reasonable conclusions about the compliance of the CATF system with the above legal criteria and the admissibility of including these municipalities in the list of federal territories.