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Social and other guarantees for retired governors

2022; Omsk State University; Issue: 474 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17223/15617793/474/26

1561-803X

Egor A. Bogolyubov,

Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia

The article examines the social and other guarantees that are provided to the highest officials of the subjects of the Russian Federation after their resignation. The aim of the article is to describe these guarantees. To reach the aim, regulatory legal acts containing provisions on the conditions for granting and terminating social and other guarantees were analyzed. The empirical basis of the study was the normative legal acts of the predominantly regional level. These acts contain a detailed list of guarantees of the governor in retirement. Material from the mass media was used to illustrate these guarantees. The article discusses the conditions for providing guarantees to governors after their resignation. It is noted that federal regulation of these conditions is scarce, while regional legislation significantly expands and clarifies the conditions for providing social guarantees. Depending on which regulatory legal act establishes the social guarantees of the retired governor, all acts were classified into seven groups. In the first case, social guarantees are fixed in a special law on the highest official of the subject of the Russian Federation. In the second case, they are established in the laws of the subjects of the Russian Federation on public positions. The third group is formed by the laws of the subjects of the Russian Federation on the government or on the system of executive authorities. The fourth group includes laws of the subjects of the Russian Federation dedicated exclusively to the guarantees of the highest official of the subject of the Russian Federation. The remaining three groups include one unique act (the Law on the People's Governor of Kemerovo Oblast, the Law on the State Adviser of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Decree of the Head of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic “On Guarantees to the President of the Kabardi-no-Balkar Republic”). Among the normative legal acts that establish guarantees for retired governors, depending on the time of their adoption, two groups of acts were distinguished: “acts of gratitude to another” and “acts of gratitude to oneself”. The content of each guarantee is analyzed. The study identified the following guarantees to the former governor: lump sum remuneration, payment of the monthly lifetime allowance, provision of medical treatment, spa care, protection, special communications, accommodation, transport, insurance, staff, office space, advisory vote, compensation of the costs of relocation and funeral, legal protection, participation in ceremonial events, guarantees related to the interaction with bodies of state power of the subject of the Russian Federation, creating a position with a special status. It is concluded that further federal regulation of these relations is impractical, since regional state authorities, together with the population of a particular subject of the Russian Federation, must independently regulate these relations.