Organization and development of the ritual and funeral industry in Moscow

The demand for ritual and funeral services, which substantiates the importance of the development of the ritual and funeral industry for the Moscow is considered. It is noted that the legal basis for the organization of the ritual and funeral industry has ceased to correspond to the pace and level of its development, and a new version of the basic Federal law is currently being developed. Significant shortcomings in the organization of the ritual and funeral industry and the maintenance of burial places that hinder its development are revealed. From the point of view of the assessment of these problems, the main directions of improvement of this industry are determined, including: improvement of legislation, organization of an effective system of market activities, increasing the protection of citizens in the provision of ritual and funeral services

PROBLEMS OF URBANIZATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CREATING A COMFORTABLE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

Urbanization, which changes the habitual living environment of people, in the process of its development leads to increased negative factors, affecting their livelihoods and health. A number of problems, associated with the development of cities: high population density, changes in insolation norms, lack of space for the formation of a comfortable urban environment, etc has been considered in the article. The attention has been focused on the fact, that the revision of such standards as insolation time, location of parking lots, etc., associated with the creation of compact cities, should be balanced

CREATION OF CONDITIONS FOR ORGANIZATION OF LEISURE AND PROVISION OF RESIDENTS WITH SERVICES IN THE SPHERE OF CULTURE IN MOSCOW CITY

The concept of “creating conditions for the organization of leisure and providing residents with the services of the sphere of culture” has been revealed. The features of the organization of management of cultural and leisure sphere in the city of Federal significance – Moscow have been considered. The creation of conditions for the organization of leisure of citizens and their provision with services of the sphere of culture has been analyzed. The most significant shortcomings, hindering the further development of cultural and leisure activities in the city of Moscow have been named and the main directions of its further development have been determined

DEVELOPMENT OF THE CULTURAL AND LEISURE SPHERE IN THE MOSCOW

The article substantiates the special significance of the development of the cultural and leisure sphere for the city of Moscow. The paper describes the organization of its management system. The author presents the results of the analysis of the main directions of the development of the cultural and leisure policy of the city of Moscow in three components: content,  infrastructure and territorial. The issues of providing the services of cultural and leisure facilities to the residents of the peripheral territories of the city of  Moscow are of paramount importance at the present time. At the same time, the study notes the peculiarities of creating conditions for organizing leisure activities and providing residents with cultural services in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The author identifies the most significant shortcomings that hinder the further development of cultural and leisure activities in the territory of the city of Moscow and determines the main directions of its further development

On the local self-government organisation in the public authority unified system

A significant form of constitutional rights implementation by Russians is the institution of local self-government, which has an important role to play in the civil society formation. Federal Law dated on December 21, 2021, No. 414-FZ “On the General Principles of the Organisation of Public Power in the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation” reveals the constitutional provisions for the public power unified system organisation in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Currently, a draft federal law reflecting the general principles of the local self-government organisation in the public power single system is being discussed. The article analyses the main provisions of this draft law related to the public self-government development, civil society and the representative power formation at the municipal level and identifies their imperfections

SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN TERRITORY IS REQUIREMENT OF TIME

In the last four years steps are being taken in the Russian Federation to organize the spatial development of its territory. The distribution of the urban population of Russia by types of settlements has been analyzed. The main problems of the territorial organization of the population have been identified. The negative aspects of the spatial development of Russia have been noted and, in this regard, the goals, directions and mechanisms of the strategy of spatial development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025 have been considered

Development of urban agglomerations as one of the directions of the strategy of spatial development of Russia

In the last four years in the Russian Federation steps to spatial arrangement of the country are taken. One of the project directions of strategy of spatial development of the Russian Federation until 2025, namely – formation and management of development of city agglomerations has been examined in the article. The problems have been highlighted, the purposes and the mechanism of management have established, the changes made to Federal law dated October 6, 2003 No. 131-FZ «On the General Principles of the Organization of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation» at a development stage of the studied direction of strategy have been considered and an assessment has been given them

TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN MOSCOW

The state status of Moscow city requires the solution of the question of the correlation of opportunities and powers of the city authorities and the lower level of territorial management of the city, based on the need to preserve the unity of the urban economy. From this perspective, the stages of development of local self-government in Moscow are considered. Attention to the nature of the organizational changes at the local level, which began with the accession of new territories to Moscow in July 2012, - is focused. Transformation of the organization of state and municipal management of the city is analyzed, tendencies of development of local government in the city of Moscow are defined

Socio-economic development of municipalities within urban agglomerations

The author studies the problems of socio-economic development of municipalities included in the conditional boundaries of urban agglomerations. When developing the foundations of the state policy of the Russian Federation for the development of local self-government, these issues come to the fore. Their solution is the key to the successful achievement of the goals of national projects and strategic objectives of the spatial development of Russia. The article considers models of management of urban agglomerations, generalizes regional experience on the use of mechanisms of socio-economic development of municipalities within agglomerations, identifies tools that contribute to the integrated development of agglomerations and obstacles that prevent it, substantiates the need to improve federal regulation of the formation and development of agglomerations, preferably in the form of a federal law

REVISION OF TERRITORIAL SCHEMES OF SOLID MUNICIPAL WASTE MANAGEMENT: SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS

Solid municipal waste as part of production and consumption waste occupy a small share. However, the volume of their burial in Russia is growing rapidly, while in many countries they are signicantly reduced. In 2016, the monitoring of the progress in reforming the sphere of waste management revealed, in particular, that many subjects of the Russian Federation violated the regulatory terms for the development of territorial schemes. In the result the decision on the postponement of the start of activities of the regional operators by 1 January 2019. This article describes the territorial schemes of treatment of solid municipal waste at the stage of their revision and attempts to analyze them from the position of compliance with the General principles of reform of the sphere of waste management