Actualization of cooperatives as an organizational-legal form of legal entities in the Russian Federation
The article analyzes novels in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation on cooperatives and the legal status of the cooperative as an organizational legal form of legal entities. The relevance and novelty of the work. The certainty, uniqueness of the legal status reflected in the organizational and legal form of the legal entity, contributes to the improvement of the legal order in society, the reduction of litigation. Despite the short stories in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, there remain questions on the classification of legal entities, their scientific and practical validity and expediency, the place of cooperatives in it. The purpose of the work. The purpose of this work is to study the classification of legal entities at the present stage, the trends and prospects for their development, as well as the place of cooperatives in it. The materials and methods of research. The material of the research was legislation (first of all, the norms of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Russian Federation) establishing the classification of legal entities), doctrine, jurisprudence, and the Concept of the Development of Civil Legislation of the Russian Federation. Research methods: general scientific and private scientific methods of cognition, including dialectical, logical, comparative-legal, historical, structural-functional, systemic. The historical method of analysis was applied to study the genesis of the formation of commercial and non-profit organizational legal form of legal entities. A comparative-legal method of analysis was used to compare the norms pertaining to different organizational legal form of legal entities. The functional approach allowed to identify the functions of the organizational and legal form as an instrument of legal regulation. The results of the work. The existing ambiguity of the consumer cooperative as an organizational and legal form can be overcome. Identification of signs of the organizational and legal form of legal entities, the definition of the nature of cooperatives, a comparative analysis of legal relationships arising in the course of activities of the production and consumer cooperatives provide grounds for this.