Features and Prospects of the New Reform of Local Self-Government in Russia
https://doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2025-4-136-152
Abstract
The adoption of the new Federal Law No. 33-FZ dated 20.03.2025 “On the general principles of the organization of local self-government in the unified system of public authority” has set important and difficult tasks for local governments and state authorities of the subjects of the Russian Federation to ensure the effective implementation of this Law, and has also opened a new wave of discussions among scientists, experts, practitioners regarding the new reforms of this institution of public authority. In this regard, it is important to assess the current state of the local government system in Russia, the content of this Federal Law in terms of identifying problematic, controversial aspects of its implementation, and justifying ways to eliminate them. To solve these problems, general scientific research methods and special methods were used (a questionnaire survey of the heads of municipalities of the subjects of the Northwestern Federal District conducted by the author in July-September 2025). As a result, the attitude of the heads of municipalities to the main provisions of this Law, to the desired redistribution of powers between local governments and public authorities, has been revealed. The proposals on leveling the existing shortcomings of the Law are substantiated (in terms of clarifying the grounds for removing the head of the municipality, the procedure for forming territorial bodies of local administration, supplementing the forms of public participation in local government, etc.), which can be used to develop proposals for further adjustments to legislation in the field of local government.
About the Author
N. V. Voroshilov
Federal State Budgetary Institution of Sciences “Vologda Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Voroshilov Nikolay V., Cand. Sc. (Econ.), Senior Research of the Laboratory for the Study of Spatial Socio-economic Systems Management Problems at the Center for the Study of Spatial Development of Socio-Economic Systems
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Voroshilov N.V. Features and Prospects of the New Reform of Local Self-Government in Russia. Federalism. 2025;30(4):136-152. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2025-4-136-152
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