The article considers public-private partnerships (PPP) as a variant of interaction between the state and private entrepreneurship. Special emphasis is placed on the problem of property rights redistribution that is aroused inevitably within a framework of the PPP projects. Some particular PPP forms are considered as the alternatives to full-scale privatization. Another aspect of the analysis concerns the redistribution of sovereign power functions of the state in some PPP models. The author assumes the principal difference between the public and civil functions of the state in the course of the economic turnover. The article deals with various models and concrete mechanisms of the PPP as well as with instruments for promotion of the partnerships projects.
