LEGAL SuPPORT FOR THE uNITy OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT AND SCIENCE CITy: FROM TERRITORIALITy TO INTEGRITy

Abstract

In retrospect, and currently, scientific forecasts of the development of rus-sian municipal, constitutional, legislation, and legislation on science are developing uni-directionally and do not consider related problems and prospects of legal regulation. As a result, the most important institutions in technological development acquire fragmented legal regulation. An analysis of legislative initiatives and trends in the development of Russian legislation on local government and science cities shows the parallel and un-coordinated development of these important areas of legal regulation. As a result, inter-related problems and unresolved tasks in the development of territories, the disclosure of the potential of local self-government in the scientific and technological growth of the state are actually multiplying. Scientists do not pay due attention to this issue. The article offers the author’s solutions to the identified problem and provides a predictive assess-ment of possible scenarios for the development of Russian legislation in an intersectoral aspect. The author’s conclusions are based not only on Russian but also foreign sources, using a comparative legal method and research methodology. The authors substantiate the importance of balanced development of legislation on science cities and local self-government as an indicator of the involvement of scientific and technical development of Russia and at the same time as an incentive for scientific activity and production of territories, taking into account their individual characteristics and potential. The inclu-sion of these indicators in the measurement of technological development and sustainable economic growth of the country creates new challenges for improving Russian legislation.