Poddubnaya, O.S. The criteria of “survival” of the villages in the conditions of the new Russia.

Abstract: Based upon the studies of the Russian legislation on local self-government, the author of this article came to the conclusion that the legislators clearly had set the conditions applicable where the civil society and developed legal culture. However, there are regions in Russia, where the civil society institutions are underdeveloped. Hence, the institutions of local self-government are underfinanced and put on the brink of survival…