On Limits of Autonomy of Fitness and Sports Institutions: Legal Regulation Problems and Solutions

The article is dedicated to problems of legal regulation of activities of fitness and sports institutions and development of recommendations for improvement of Russian laws in the system of state governance of sports. The article studies issues of the legal status of so-called alternative federations within the framework of the content and limits of self-regulation of their activities, the impact of unofficial activities on the process of development of acknowledged sports, shows the nature and scope of negative sociolegal phenomena arising as a result of legal regulation gaps. The authors conclude on a certain gap between law-making and actually forming relations, insufficient state regulation of such relations, absence of the required control over unofficial competitions. The carried out research is used as the basis to formulate proposals for improvement of legal regulation of activities of fitness and sports institutions for the purposes of uniform application and observance of laws on physical education and sports all over the territory of the Russian Federation, protection of the role and meaning of high-performance sports, athletic titles and other legal institutions in the sphere of physical education and sports, achievement of the balance of interests and coordination of activities of sports federations and fitness and sports institutions that have no state accreditation for sports development.