Development of the Institution of Administrative-Territorial Structure of the Russian Federation

The purpose of the article is to investigate the problems of the administrative-territorial structure of the Russian Federation. The study reviews the works of prominent researchers in the sphere of constitutional law and addresses the regional aspect of the problem based on the example of the Stavropol Territory. Attention is drawn to the fact that adequate federal legal enshrinement of the status of Caucasian Mineral Waters is still not provided. A draft federal law to this effect is still in preparation. The article concludes by proposing several novelties and amendments to existing legal acts