Municipal government and technological sovereignty: some facets of intersection and interaction

Introduction. The super-intensive development of Russian legislation, due to the presence of numerous external and internal threats to the sovereign people of our country, is increasingly opening up new horizons for researchers to apply scientific thought. Issues of legal support for “technological sovereignty” are becoming one of the areas of rapid development of legal doctrine. In his speeches, the President of the Russian Federation has repeatedly stressed the urgent need for breakthrough in the sphere of scientific, technological and socio-economic growth of the state due to the development of scientific research and its priority areas of science and technology. Based on the analysis of the current legislation regulating legal relations in the field of technological sovereignty and the latest legislation on local self-government, an attempt has been made to assess the degree of the involvement of municipal authorities in ensuring the state policy to achieve technological sovereignty. Methods. The work used a set of methods that have been developed and tested by constitutional law, municipal law science, as well as the general theory of state and law. The research used methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, a dialectical approach and other methods of cognition generally accepted in legal doctrine. Results. Based on the results of the study, it is concluded that the federal authorities have a residual approach to involving local governments in the implementation of the Strategy of Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation. The author believes that such approach significantly belittles the role of municipal authorities in creating advanced infrastructure, scientific research and development, encouraging innovation, developing full-fledged conditions for scientific and scientific educational centers in municipalities, forming an integrated system of training and professional growth, etc. It is proposed to adjust the approach of the federal authorities in order to deepen and expand the opportunities for municipal authorities to participate in the mechanisms for ensuring state policy to achieve technological sovereignty in the Russian Federation.