Self-government in Poland and Russian federation – introductory remarks

Abstract

Political and economic transformations which started at the beginning of the 1990s launched a series of reforms in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, which laid foundations for democratic structures of the state, including local self-government. The paper draws attention to conditions and mechanisms that have shaped self-government structures in Poland and in the Russian Federation. Considerations focus, first of all, on the construction, or, in the case of Poland, restitution of the structure of territorial self-government and the scope of its activities, indicating main resources of their funding.