Constitutional Features of the Federal Territory Status: Issues of Theory and Practice

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the federal territory organization constitutional and legal foundations. The article analyzes the constitutional acts of Russia on the issues of formation and functioning of the federal territory as a separate type of public law entities. It is established that in legal science there are different approaches to the definition of the concept «federal territory». In this connection the position of applying this term only in the political sense is justified. The author formulates the main characteristics of the federal territory as a public law entity, and examines the provisions of the Federal Law «On the Federal Territory "Sirius"», which defines the status, territorial structure, as well as the order of public power organization in the federal territory. It is indicated that the federal territory in Russia is a public law entity «with a special status», since public authorities are created and operate within its borders, with separate powers of federal, regional and municipal importance. Based on the results of the analysis of Russian legislation and legal literature, the content of the federal territory constitutional legal personality is shown, which has certain differences from other public legal entities (state subjects and municipalities).It is stated that the creation of federal territories is associated with the consistent implementation of the administrative reform stages aimed at improving the efficiency of the executive power in our country. In the study of the federal territory as a new constitutional and law institution, the author uses methods of analysis, synthesis, as well as formal legal, dialectical and systematic methods of scientific research, the combination of which made it possible to determine the constitutional and legal content of the federal territory as a new type of a public law entity.