The article is devoted to summing up the five-year reform of local government institution (based on the results of a survey of heads of local administrations). It is shown that, along with the positive results achieved during the transformation a number of problems remain unresolved. The most significant one is the lack of financial autonomy of municipalities and the low efficiency of interaction of strategic subjects of territories development
Keywords
municipalities, reform of local government institution, the problem of efficient
functioning of the municipal government