Trend Analysis of the Municipalities (Municipal Associations) and the State of the Local Budgets in the Region
One of the factors that influence the emergence of the budget problems in the municipal sphere is the imperfection of its territorial organization. There are some different structures in the territorial organization of the ISU organs in the Russian Federation. At the same time the structures of the territorial organizations are radically changed in some regions of the country. Recently there is a tendency in the Russian practice to the municipal associations merge. The article represents the analysis of this tendency at the settlement level and in municipal regions together with financial support of the local budgets.