PROBLEMS OF CLASSIFYING LEGAL ENTITIES AS CORPORATE AND UNITARY ONES IN THE EXISTING CIVIL LEGISLATION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Background. The existing system of legal entities has been introduced an amendment in part one of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation that for the first time designated organizational and legal forms, within which collective subjects can be created, as well as divided them by types. Today standards of chapter 4 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation has undergone essential changes that affect the bases of creation of the system of legal entities. To explain the point and purposes of such changes it is necessary to address to the existing scientific approaches to this problem, and also to the analysis of the existing civil legislation that fixed new classification of legal entities. The research objective is to investigate the existing civil legislation of the Russian Federation fixing division of legal entities on corporate and unitary, to carry out the analysis of its contents. Materials and methods. The research tasks were implemented on the basis of the analysis of standards of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and explanation of their sense. As methods of research methods were used a method of the analysis of standard and legal regulation and legallistic. Results. The existing scientific approaches to the division of legal entities on corporate and unitary ones, the standards of the Civil code of the Russian Federation which fixed the considered classification are analysed. Conclusions. It is emphasized that the system of legal entities has to be constructed proceeding from the uniform nature of the corporate “administrative” relations in any organizations. General provisions on the corporate rights (connected with management of the legal entity) have to be formulated in relation to any legal entities.