The paper considers territorial models of local self governance that had emerged in Russian regions prior to the reform and their impact on various aspects of municipal establishments' activities. The authors evaluate the regional law in the area of local self governance and interbudgetary...

Organizational and financial issues related to the governance of municipalities were examined in this work with the aim to analyze regional peculiarities of municipal reform during transition period. Analysis was conducted with the help of budget statistics for the first half of 2006 and...

Within the framework of this study, we have been monitoring the development of municipal reform from the moment of the enactment of Federal Law No. 131-FZ, “On general principles of the organization of local self-government in the Russian Federation,” until mid-year 2006. This paper...

The paper considers territorial models of local selfgovernance that had emerged in Russian regions prior to the reform and their impact on various aspects of municipal establishments' activities. The authors evaluate the regional law in the area of local selfgovernance and interbudgetary...

Within the framework of this study, we have been monitoring the development of municipal reform from the moment of the enactment of Federal Law No. 131-FZ, “On general principles of the organization of local selfgovernment in the Russian Federation”, until mid-year 2006. This paper describes...

Organizational and financial issues related to the governance of municipalities were examined in this work with the aim to analyze regional peculiarities of municipal reform during transition period. Analysis was conducted with the help of budget statistics for the first half of 2006 and...

In September 2014, the RF Government approved a draft budget for 2015. In so doing it rejected the idea of increasing taxes and found an intermediate solution for the preservation of the funded component of labor pension without, however, making a fi nal decision as to its future. On the other...