Legal status of local governments in the Russian Federation

Purpose: The presented article is directed on studying of some questions of a legal status of local governments in Russia. Methodology: The author applied a formal-legal method. Results: In work the maintenance of standard and legal bases of a legal status of local governments in Russia is opened. The author notes that local governments possess the functions and powers of authority provided with the state coercion. Also they, as well as government bodies, have structure, the forms of work, are formed in strict accordance with the law. Concerning local value by the population of municipality directly, bodies and officials of local government municipal legal acts can be adopted. Novelty/originality/value: The scientific value of work consists in complex studying of bases of a regulation of a legal status of local governments in Russia.