Relevance of the studied problem is conditioned by the necessity of performance of the constitutional-legal study and development of legal algorithms, providing efficiency of cooperation between the local self-government authorities and public associations. Goal of the study is to analyze the basics of constitutional-legal regulation of cooperation between the local self-government authorities and public associations, detect the gaps in regulation, as well as offer legal adjustments, aimed at its correction. Leading methods of this problem study is a formal-legislative method, which allows to analyze laws and regulations, determine into it the peculiarities of the mechanism of formalizing of cooperation between the local self-government authorities and public associations. In this article, we analyzed the provisions of international legal acts, as well as the norms of the Russian Federation Constitution, dedicated to cooperation between the local government authorities and public associations; insufficiency of regulation of these relationships is determined at the level of the Russian constitutional law; offers concerning the additions the RF constitution are developed, which purpose is to fill the gap. Authors’ conclusions are aimed at the formalization in the Russian Constitution of public associations’ right to take part in the execution of local self-governance and cooperate with the local self-government authorities, which shall allow to create a legal basis for the formation of legal mechanism of cooperation between the local government authorities and public associations in Russia.

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