“Electoral” Law (on the Practice of the Applying of Normson Local Referendum on the Territoryof an Urban District)

Abstract

The subject of the Author’s publication is the work of the initiative group on holding a referendum in the city of Omsk in 2013-2014. Based on documents of administrative, representative and judicial bodies, the Author analyzes and derives specific rules that played a role in the appeal of citizens for the realization of the right to a referendum. It was concluded that the requirements of the federal legislation on referendum were exceeded in practice, that the list of issues not put to the vote without the consent of local self-government bodies was directly exceeded, that the concept of local issues was directly linked to federal legislation on local selfgovernment, and that the institution was limited in the current situation.