Constitutional and Legal Nature of Powers of Public Authorities on the Federal Territory "Sirius"

Introduction: the reform carried out in 2020 has established a new legal institution at the constitutional level – the federal territory (hereinafter – FT). Only the federal legislator has the only legitimate legal possibility to create and organise public authority on territorial units of this type. The article studies the legal basis for the organisation of public authority in the FT ‘Sirius’. Materials and Methods: research materials include normative legal acts regulating the legal status of FT "Sirius", scientific publications, as well as court records. When writing the article, both universal scientific (synthesis, analysis, induction, deduction, etc.) and specific scientific (formal-legal, system-structural, etc.) methods of scientific knowledge were used. Results: the article examines suggests scientific point of view on the definition of bodies of government powers on the given territorial unit; the author represents her own view concerning the structure of the relationship between public authorities on the FT ‘Sirius’. Discussion and Conclusions: at present, the legal status of the FT is determined by the federal legislator only for one FT “Sirius”. The article reveals the complex legal structure of the powers of public authorities in the FT "Sirius".