The experience of regulating the activities of local referendum commissions in certain constituent entities of the Russian Federation
The article aims to carry out an analysis of the existing normative regulation of the activities of local referendum commissions in the Russian Federation, using the legislation of some Russian regions as an example. It also points out that the chosen topic is viewed as relevant due to the current process of improving the activities of public authorities of the Russian Federation by administrative regulation of their activities with a view to increasing the efficiency and openness of such authorities. Having analysed a number of normative legal acts regulating the activities of local referendum commissions in such constituent entities of the Russian Federation as the Voronezh region, Saint Petersburg, the Vologda region, the Moscow region, the Nizhny Novgorod region, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Orenburg region and the Pskov region, the author of the article comes to the conclusion that at present the administrative regulation of these activities at the level of legislative acts of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation is considered to be unsatisfactory. The article pays special attention to the fact that solving this problem requires the adoption of Model regulations on local referendum commissions, which would reflect all the administrative procedures used in the referendum process.