ON CREATION OF THE STATE-MUNICIPAL STRUCTURE OF RUSSIA
The article analyzes the problems and features of the modern stage of development of popular sovereignty and the constitutional novelty of the unity of state and municipal public authorities. The tendencies and possibilities of achieving political agreement between the state and the people are considered. Attention is drawn to the peculiarities of the independence of local selfgovernment in the formation of local selfgovernment bodies, in the interaction of local selfgovernment bodies and public authorities in the performance of public functions and services. A proposal for the development of the effectiveness of interaction between public authorities is being considered. Special attention is paid to the need to overcome the defcit of democracy by limiting state expansion and increasing the role of municipal public authorities. The urgent problem of the necessity and possibility of balancing the competing values of democracy and economic efciency is brought up for discussion. Suggestions are made: constitution of the principle of subsidiarity; on the establishment of interrelated indicators of the efectiveness of public authorities; the development of a unifed system of statistical accounting, which makes it possible to represent the unity of public authorities as the backbone of the Russian statehood; on vesting the All-Russian Association of Municipal Formations (OKMO) with the right of legislative initiative. The unity of the state and municipal public authorities presupposes the unity of goals and the development of the participation of local communities in the management of not only local, but also state afairs.