URBANIZATION IN RUSSIA: SOME PROBLEMS OF CONSTITUTIONAL LEGAL REGULATION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

Abstract

The subject is constitutional legal issues of urbanization in Russia.
The purpose of the article is to identify main constitutional legal problems of urbanization in Russia and suggest the ways of their settlement.
The methodology. The author uses a dialectical method, a method of analysis and synthesis, a formal legal method, a comparative legal method.
Results and scope of application. Number of problems of constitutional and legal regulation and law enforcement in the context of urbanization were analyzed. The role of cities and villages in the formation of Russian society and the state, legal and socio-economic features of law enforcement in urban and rural life, the impact of scientific and technological progress on cities were studied.
The author believes that the Russian Constitution is "the Constitution of cities" because almost any legal peculiarities of the constitutional legal regulation of the forms of urban and rural life are not incorporated. It is one of the causes of the degradation of the modern village. "City state" formation anticipated a number of negative factors. The author identifies the factors that determine prospects of the development of modern law enforcement in a situation of global urbanization.
Conclusions. The urbanization process cannot be artificially stimulated in favor of doubtful socio-economic achievements. We can’t ignore the quality of law-creation from the point of view of realization of interests of the population and ensure effective law enforcement at all levels of government and management.