The Head of a Municipal Formation: Practice of Implementing Certain Provisions of Federal Legislation on Local Self- Government in the Subjects of the Russian Federation

The problems of legal regulation of certain provisions of Federal Law No. 33-FZ dated 03/20/2025 "On the general principles of the organization of local Self-government in the unified system of public Authority" will be the subject of numerous studies and discussions for a long time. This is not surprising, since even before its entry into force, the aforementioned law was "criticized" by both the expert community and other individual representatives of public authorities. The presented article is devoted to the author's analysis of the implementation of certain provisions of the status of the head of a municipal entity that have reappeared in Russian legislation at the level of practice of individual subjects of the Russian Federation. Based on the results of the study, the author concludes that the formation of an extremely diverse and contradictory practice of implementing certain provisions of the status of the highest official of a municipal entity at the level of the subjects of the Russian Federation. This fact further "aggravates" the inconsistency of the regulatory framework on local self-government, "lays" the prerequisites for checking the practice of regional authorities for its constitutionality and, of course, significantly reduces the "potential" of municipal authorities to most effectively address issues of direct support for the livelihoods (issues of local importance) of the population of the relevant municipalities.