Abstract: The article analyses new elements of Federal legislation in the public-private partnership sphere and the constituent entities’ experience of applying various models of public-private interaction including investment forms (concessions, public-private contracts, lease with investment commitment) and forms not involving investment (public contract; subsidies to consumers of social services and social services providers). It is demonstrated that in most cases they are interchangeable, which causes the necessity to perform their comparative analysis at the project preparation stage.Methods of logical analysis, and statistical analysis were used to identify regional problems arising in social sphere in connection with public-private partnership development. Surveys of public authorities of Russian regions were conducted. Development of public-private partnership entails a risk of degradation of the budgetary institutions. The process of substituting of budgetary institutions by private providers is very active in home care sector; reallocation of budgetary resources in favor of private providers takes also place in the sphere of healthcare and education. In the home care sector, not requiring significant investments, the process of replacing public services by the private ones does not create significant risks, but those risks are really serious in the sphere of healthcare and education - the capacity of the public sector, in the case of its loss, is not subject to rapid recovery. There was a number of cases, when PPP-reconstruction of health facilities led to the reduction of free services for people.

Abstract: The article analyses new elements of Federal legislation in the public-private partnership sphere and the constituent entities’ experience of applying various models of public-private interaction including investment forms (concessions, public-private contracts, lease with investment commitment) and forms not involving investment (public contract; subsidies to consumers of social services and social services providers). It is demonstrated that in most cases they are interchangeable, which causes the necessity to perform their comparative analysis at the project preparation stage.Methods of logical analysis, and statistical analysis were used to identify regional problems arising in social sphere in connection with public-private partnership development. Surveys of public authorities of Russian regions were conducted. Development of public-private partnership entails a risk of degradation of the budgetary institutions. The process of substituting of budgetary institutions by private providers is very active in home care sector; reallocation of budgetary resources in favor of private providers takes also place in the sphere of healthcare and education. In the home care sector, not requiring significant investments, the process of replacing public services by the private ones does not create significant risks, but those risks are really serious in the sphere of healthcare and education - the capacity of the public sector, in the case of its loss, is not subject to rapid recovery. There was a number of cases, when PPP-reconstruction of health facilities led to the reduction of free services for people.