Local community: variety without normative justification

The qualitative application of the provisions of normative legal acts by legal entities is directly dependent on the quality of the formation of the text of the applied acts and the level of legal awareness of the law enforcer. Both of these factors have an extremely destructive force for law enforcement when the concepts and categories established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and other normative acts are replaced by "pseudo-categories" by law enforcement officials, although they are vaguely similar to the original, but they do not have not only their own established normative legal content, but also unity of understanding among both government institutions and among researchers, not to mention ordinary citizens and their associations. One of these categories in the field of local government is the local community. Based on specific examples of the results of scientific research, judicial practice, and the established practice of using the category "local community", the authors conclude that the principle of legal certainty is violated when using this category and its "destructive" effect on the understanding of the constitutional and legal essence of local self-government in the Russian Federation, which has significantly changed over the past three decades in specific the norms of legislation on local self-government.