Kondrashev Andrey
Abstract: The article is dedicated to the systematic analysis of federal and regional legislation, which regulates issues connected with legal status of administrative territorial subjects with the special status (ATSSS) in the system of federative and municipal structure of the Russian Federation. Researching different points of view of constitutionalists, the author discloses features of legal status of the category of administrative territorial subjects including administrative territorial subjects with the special status’ features. The author discloses problems and offers solutions including the revision of existing rules and the adaptation of the new federal law, which is aimed at regulation of some issues appearing in administrative territorial subjects with the special status. The position of governmental departments and local governments in administrative territorial subjects with the special status are considered as the separate issue. Because each subject of the RF determines its own organizational model of governmental departments and local governments, each position with further identification of its strong and weak sides is considered and analyzed; specific changes of norms of the Federal legislation on local self-government are proposed. The author speaks about the creation of «municipal national okrug» with additional rights, which are aimed at saving cultural originality and traditional way of life of native minorities of the ATSSS areas in the Northern part of Russia.
Keywords: administrative territorial subjects with the special status; autonomy; autonomous region; national territorial administrative autonomy; national features of indigenous people; territorial structure of the RF; association of the subjects of the RF.