Issues of the Interaction between Municipal Structures and Government Authorities of the Russian Federation in View of the 2020 Constitutional Reform
The article amendments introduced into the text of the chapter eighth of the Russian Federation Constitution by the federal constitutional law of March 14, 2020 "On improving the regulation of certain issues of the organization and functioning of public authorities" and approved during the All-Russian vote on July 1, 2020 are described and interpreted. It is noted that the fundamental twist in the theory of municipal law was the innovation in the text of Article 132 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation on a unified system of public authorities, which includes both local authorities and bodies of federal entities and federal authorities. Promising directions for the development of legislation in the field of interaction between municipalities and public authorities in the context of the changes to the text of chapter eight of the Russian Federation Constitution are proposed.