The voting took place at the reporting and election congress in Moscow
Today, at the 7th Congress of the Russian Association for Local Self-Government Development, Ilsur Metshin, Mayor of Kazan, was re-elected to the Presidium of the Council of the organization.
Yevgeny Grachyov, Deputy Head of the Office of the Russian President for Domestic Policy, welcomed delegates from 89 regions of the country. The participants summarized the results of work in 2024, noting the importance of the Municipal Dialogue project and hearing a report on the first Russian Municipal Forum «Small Motherland – Strength of Russia» and the «Service» award with the participation of the President of Russia.
The Association for Local Self-Government Development was established in 2019. It consists of all 89 regional associations – councils of municipalities of the subjects of the Russian Federation.
The founders of the association are the following organizations: the Russian Congress of Municipalities, the Russian Council of Local Self-Government, the Union of Russian Cities, the International Assembly of Capitals and Large Cities, the Association for the Development of Historical Settlements «Russian Province», the Association of Closed Administrative-Territorial Formations of the Nuclear Industry, the Association of Cities of the Volga Region, and the Union of Cities of the Center and North-West of Russia.
In July 2024, the status of the Russian Association for Local Self-Government Development as a single organization to ensure the expression and protection of the common interests of local governments and municipalities was officially recognized at the legislative level in Russia.