The main aspects of interaction between local government, power structures and population

The article examines the role of the local government in the interaction between the public administration institutions and the population. The main obstacle hindering establishment of the functional linkages is, on the one hand, the long drawn-out process of the civil society formation, the legal nihilism of the population, the lack of social and economic activity, and on the other hand, the bureaucracy as a closed institutional management system.