A. V. Chernyavsky
REVIEW OF THE MUNICIPAL FINANCE DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA IN 1992 - 2002
REVIEW OF THE MUNICIPAL FINANCE DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA IN 1992 - 2002 (Word Document, 742 Êá) discusses the cause for the failure of the development of a strong local self-government system in Russia. Several of the proposed causes include the fact that Russians are unprepared to participate in local self-governance and have no trust in democratic institutions in general, the idea that governors almost everywhere are at war with mayors of large cities, viewing them as their contenders, the “evil actions” of the Ministry of Finance which would prefer to have municipalities on a fixed budget, and many other reasons, including the fact that the very concept of federalism is unacceptable for the new presidential administration. This report is aimed at demonstrating the following: the main fundamental cause of the crisis was the system of municipal finance imposed on local self-governments by federal authorities.
