At the Institute of Contemporary Development was held a roundtable meeting on “Legal Regulation of Local Self-Administration in Russia: Status, Problems, and Areas for Development”.
 
The following individuals attended the meeting: Executive Director of the All-Russia Congress of Municipal Formations, Viktor Pankrashchenko; Manager of the Secretariat of the State Duma Committee on Questions of Local Self-Administration, Igor Babichev; Manager of the Secretariat of the Federation Council Committee on Local Self-Administration, Olga Motyakova; and other representatives of power and societal bodies, and also academics and experts in the field of local self-administration.
 
The report entitled “Legal Regulation of Local Self-Administration in Russia: Status, Problems, and Areas for Development” was discussed at the roundtable. The report was prepared by the Institute for Contemporary Development as part of the project “Analysis and Prospects of Development of Local Self-Administration in Russia”. Investigations into the legislative foundations, societal-political possibilities, and the financial-economic base of local self-administration in Russia were all investigated and researched for the report.
 
The experts present examined the following issues:
 
- legal regulation of local self-administration, achievements and deficiencies in the existing system, and the legitimacy of the legal regimentation on federal, regional and local levels;
 
- legal questions concerning the transfer of specific state authorities to municipal formations, and the transfer of authorities on questions of a local nature;
 
- forms of direct democracy in the Russian system of local self-administration;
 
- legal bases for the formation and activities of municipal bodies;
 
- problems of state control and juridical liability in the sphere of local self-administration;
 
- legal bases for spatial development of the country, and areas of perfecting territorial bases of local self-administration.
 
In the discussions the participants discussed the delineation of the competences and authorities of municipal formations, and evaluated specific characteristics of allocating different competences to questions of local settlements, municipal districts and town circuits.
 
As a result of the series of roundtables on local self-administration, which will be held at the Institute of Contemporary Development, are to be prepared recommendations for the Government of the Russian Federation on state politics in the area of local self-administration.