Legal Status of Scientific Organizations in the Russian Federation

The article is devoted to the analysis of the legal status of scientific organizations and its legal regulation in the framework of the Federal Law «On Science and State Scientific and Technical Policy». The authors provide statistical data and comprehensively cover the state of scientific organizations in the Russian Federation. The results of the work are the following: theoretical provisions on the concept of a scientific organization, its organizational and legal forms, rights and obligations of a scientific organization as a legal entity, the powers of ownership. A classification of scientific organizations is proposed. From the practical point of view, the study is notable for the selection of imperfections of scientific organizations legal status regulation. The possibility of introducing amendments to the current legislation is investigated: setting the percentage of public and private partnership in the sphere of scientific organizations ownership; introducing the grounds for recognizing a scientific organization of humanitarian direction as a scientific center; amending the list of results of intellectual activity that a scientific organization has the right to contribute to the charter capital of an economic society, etc. The article may be useful in the study of the concept «scientific law» and the legal regulation of science in Russia.