Законодательство о некоммерческих организациях в России: история и современное состояние

Legislation on Non-profit Organizations in Russia: History and Current State

The problem of understanding such a phenomenon as the legal regulation of the activities of non-profit organizations in Russia is one of the topical problems facing Russian jurisprudence. The urgency of this problem is due to the fact that non-profit organizations form the basis of civil society, the degree of development of which indicates the potential for building a rule-of-law state. In the course of the study, the purpose of which was to identify the patterns of legal regulation of non-profit organizations in Russia through the use of certain research methods such as comparative approach, historical research methods, axiological approach, the following conclusions were drawn: 1) the legal science faces the problem of comprehending legal regulation activities of non-profit organizations in Russia; 2) historical analysis of the legal regulation of the activities of non-profit organizations in Russia shows that the history of the formation and development of the Russian legal system, as well as the history of the development of legislative regulation of activities, went through three stages: the pre-revolutionary stage, the Soviet stage, the post-Soviet stage; 3) In our opinion, the main ways of further improving legislation in the field of legal regulation of non-profit organizations in the Russian Federation include the following: a) The need to consolidate in the Russian legislation a single specialized legislative center, extending its effect on all types of non-profit organizations, since the legislation on non-profit organizations is distinguished by the presence of a number of large federal laws regulating the activities of certain types of civil society institutions; b)Recognition of the need for more active participation of non-profit organizations in the activities of public authorities at the decision-making level, including expertise of draft laws, public control, etc.