Municipal Districts in the Light of Optimization of the Territorial Organization of Local Self-Government in Russia
The paper examines changes in the Federal legislation on the local self-government, which were introduced in may, 2019. Federal legislation of 1 may, 2019 № 87-FZ introduced a new type of municipal settlement - municipal district. Analysis of the specified changes makes it possible to state that subjects of the Russian Federation could use singular level model of the local self-government at the parts of the subject of the Russian Federation where the usage of a two-tier model is ineffective. However, the Federal legislation of the 6 october, 2003 does not establish the criteria, which limits the discretion of the subjects of the Russian Federation for the division of its territory exclusively between urban and municipal districts. It might lead to the rejection from the settlement level of the local self-government.