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Russia's Local and Financial System Policy Trend Report ,**+: -.-/0 Russia’s Local and Financial System Takafumi NAKAI Institute for Russian & East European Economic Studies, Japan Association for Trade with Russia & Central-Eastern Europe Abstract:After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation has been building a new local structure and financial system, entirely di#erent from the old regime. The objective of this study is to describe the general layout of Russia’s current regional structure and regional financial system. Section + reviews Russia’s local system after the collapse of the Soviet Union. By establishing the Federal Treaty, the Russian Constitution and the Power-Sharing Treaties under the Yeltsin administration (+33,-+333), Russia formed the basic framework of a federal state, extending much wider powers to the subjects of the federation compared to the former regime of the Soviet Union. However, Russia’s decentralization developed in a very complex and irregular pattern, as a result of strengthening regional powers and the central government’s faltering power. New Russian president Putin started the local reforms, striving for “strong state power,” using key phrases such as “dictatorship of law” and “vertical line of power.” He is currently promoting local system reforms with centralized measures (establishing Federal Districts, weakening regional powers). Section , surveys the regional financial system in the Russian Federation. There are three levels of budgets in the Russian public finance system: federal budget, budgets of the subjects of the federation (regional budget) and local budgets. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, due to the fact that the most critical issues of distribution of tax revenues and fiscal aid between the federation and the subjects of the federation were not strictly stipulated in laws at any level, this issue was decided between the Federal Government and each subject of the federation by way of direct negotiation. Hence, the budget system became disorderly and decentralization advanced in an unregulated manner. The enactment of “the Russian Federal Budget Code” in August +332 reorganized and clarified the relationship of the three-level budget system. In addition, it has been di$cult for most to grasp the entire picture of the Russian tax system, for such reasons as the abundance of tax categories, frequent introduction and abolition of taxes, repeated modification of tari#s and tax payment procedures, and introduction of individual tax by each subject of the federation and local self- governments. In order to ameliorate the present situation, Russia is still undergoing tax reform. Key words:Power-sharing treaty, dictatorship of law, vertical line of power, three levels of budgets, Budget Code, fiscal aid. Introduction As is generally known, the Russian Federation is a It is important to understand the local financial and multiethnic state, of which twenty-one republics, ten government system when considering a participatory autonomous areas, and one autonomous region, are eth- approach on Russia. Previously, there has been little nically identified subjects of the federation, and mainly analysis on the local system under the subjects of the composed of non-Russians (non-Russians make up +2./ῌ federation, and studies on the financial system relation- of the total population in Russia). On the other hand, the ship between the central government and the subjects of Federation’s remaining forty-nine regions, six territories the federation have only just begun. Under the Putin (krai), and the two cities of federal significance are geo- administration, incentive for local institutional reform graphically identified subjects of the federation, and geared towards centralization is promoted. The objec- mainly composed of Russians. The complexity of the tive of this study is to depict a general layout of Russia’s subjects of the federation that range up to six types, and current regional structure and regional financial system. the coexistence of ethnical and geographical identified subjects of the federation is a unique Russian character- + Russia’s Local System istic without parallel in any other federation state (Table +). +-+ Development of Russia’s Local System The transition of Russia’s new administration is pro- +-+-+ From the Soviet Union to the Russian Federa- moted on the basis of three pillars: +)planned economy tion to market economy, ,)one-party dictatorship to democ- Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in +33+, racy, and -)centralization to decentralization. After the Russia succeeded the former the Russia Soviet Federa- collapse of the Soviet Union, decentralizationῌpower- ted Socialist Republic territory and became a federation sharing between the central government and the sub- that consists of eighty-nine subjects of the federation. jects of the federation became Russia’s most important policy. At the same time, it is hard to deny that Russia’s Address: / FKanayama-Bldg., +-,-+, Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, decentralization developed in the form of a landslide, as Tokyo, +*.-**--,Japan Tel: ῍2+----//+-0,+2,Fax: ῍2+----//+-0,2. aresult of strengthening regional powers and the cen- E-mail: [email protected] tral government’s faltering power, and lack of the cen- Takafumi NAKAI 35 Table + Breakdowns by Subnational Jurisdiction Category. tral government’s e#ective control, follows the collapse +-+-, The Signing of the Federal Treaty of the Soviet Union. The widening political and econom- The “Federal Treaty” was signed on March -+, +33, ic disparity within the subjects of the federation also had and was the first treaty to outline the shared powers an e#ect on the power-sharing process with the central between the central government and the subjects of the government. Consequently, Russia’s decentralization federation in Russia. (However, Chechnya, declaring and the power-sharing process developed in a very com- itself a sovereign republic, and Tatarstan, claiming its plex and irregular pattern. sovereignty with Russia under international law, did not 36 Policy Trend Report ,**+ Table , Major Di#erences of Federal Treaties. sign the Treaty.) In the Federal Treaty, issues under control of the The Federal Treaty outlined power control into three jurisdiction of the Russian Federation include; +)adop- levels of jurisdictions: +)jurisdiction of the Russian Fed- tion and amendment of the Constitution of the Russian eration, ,) joint jurisdiction of the Russian Federation Federation and the Federal Constitutional Law; ,)estab- and the subjects of the Russian Federation, and -)resid- lishment of federal executive, legislative, and judiciary ual powers to be exercised primarily by the subjects of power system; procedure for the organization and ac- the federation. Issues under the jurisdiction of the Rus- tivities thereof; formation of federal bodies of state sian Federation (political and legislative) are exclusively power; -)determining the basic principles of federal enforced and imposed legal regulation solely at the fed- policy and programs in the field of state structure, the eral level, and the subjects of the federation have no economy, the social and cultural development of the authority to adopt legal acts such as state laws or deci- Russian Federation; .)federal and state property and sions of the state governor. On the other hand, powers to management thereof; /)financial, monetary, credit and be exercised primarily by the subjects of the federation customs regulation, and guidelines for price policy; 0) are the opposite, allowing the subjects of the federation foreign policy, international relations and treaties of the to constitute their own legal acts such as state law or Russian Federation; 1)defense and security; 2)nuclear decisions of the state governor, and exercise power with- energy and space activities; 3) judicial courts, out receiving any control from the central government. Prosecutor’s O$ce, and criminal and civil legislation. Joint jurisdiction issues specify for the Federal Constitu- Issues under control of the joint jurisdiction of the tional Law to be initially enacted, hence allow the sub- jects of the federation to impose legal regulation within + For example, legislature on forests is stated as a joint the framework of the policy, according to its social and jurisdiction issue of the Federation and subunits, under economic conditions+.Incase of discrepancies between the Federal Constitutional Law and the new Russian laws or other legal acts of the federation and the subjects constitution. Following this, the Khabarovsk territory was able to establish the Khabarovsk Territory Forest of the federation regarding joint jurisdiction issues, all Law Code (December, +332)and conduct its own legal other documents would defer to the Federal Constitu- regulation, within the framework of the Federal Forest tional Law. Law Code (January, +331). Takafumi NAKAI 37 Russian Federation and the subjects of the Russian Fed- to be settled, with the establishment of the new constitu- eration include; +)ensuring compliance of the constitu- tion. During this process, President Yeltsin attempted tions and laws of the republics, charters, laws, and other formulating the constitution by a special constitutional regulatory legal acts with the Constitution of the Rus- convention an organization outside of the traditional sian Federation and the Federal Constitutional Law; ,) federal assembly, by bringing in the subjects of the use and management of natural resources, environ- federation (regional power) as
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