Editing Moscow (section)

==Authorities==
===Moscow authorities===
[[File:Tverskaya13 Moscow 06-2015.jpg|thumb|[[Government of Moscow]]]]

According to the [[Constitution of Russia|Constitution of the Russian Federation]], Moscow is an independent [[federal subject]] of the [[Russia|Russian Federation]], a [[Federal cities of Russia|city of federal importance]].

The [[Mayor of Moscow]] is the leading official in the executive, leading the [[Government of Moscow]], which is the highest organ of executive power.
The [[Moscow City Duma]] is the [[city duma]] ([[city council]] or local [[parliament]]) and local laws must be approved by it. It includes 45 members who are elected for a five-year term on [[Electoral district|single-mandate constituency]] basis.

From 2006 to 2012, direct elections of the mayor were not held due to changes in the [[Charter of the city of Moscow]], with the mayor appointed by presidential decree. The first direct elections from the time of the [[2003 Moscow mayoral election|2003 vote]] were to be held after the expiration of the current mayor in 2015, however, in connection with his resignation of his own free will, they took place in [[2013 Moscow mayoral election|September 2013]].

Local administration is carried out through eleven prefectures, uniting the districts of Moscow into administrative districts on a territorial basis, and 125 regional administrations. According to the law "On the organization of local self-government in the city of Moscow", since the beginning of 2003, the executive bodies of local self-government are municipalities, representative bodies are municipal assemblies, whose members are elected in accordance with the Charter of the intracity municipality.

===Federal authorities===
[[File:Дом правительства РФ.jpg|thumb|[[White House (Moscow)|The House of the Government of the Russian Federation]]]]

In Moscow, as in a city endowed with the [[Constitution of Russia|Constitution of the Russian Federation]], the legislative, executive, and judicial federal authorities of the country are located, with the exception of the [[Constitutional Court of Russia|Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation]], which has been located in [[Saint Petersburg]] since 2008.

The supreme executive authority – the [[Government of Russia|Government of the Russian Federation]] – is located in the House of the Government of the Russian Federation (the [[White House (Moscow)|White House]]) on [[Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment]] in the center of Moscow. The [[State Duma]] sits on [[Okhotny Ryad (street)|Okhotny Ryad]]. The [[Federation Council (Russia)|Federation Council]] is located in a building on [[Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street|Bolshaya Dmitrovka]]. The [[Supreme Court of Russia|Supreme Court of the Russian Federation]] is also located in Moscow.

The [[Moscow Kremlin]] is the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation. The president's working residence in the Kremlin is located in the [[Kremlin Senate|Senate Palace]].

=== Safety ===
[[File:Police bmw.jpg|thumb|A [[BMW 5 Series]] of the [[Moscow City Police|Moscow Police]] on patrol]]
In a ranking of the safest cities by ''[[Economist Intelligence Unit|The Economist]]'' in 2021, Moscow occupied the 38th position with a score of 62.5 points.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://impact.economist.com/projects/safe-cities/ |title=Safe Cities Index 2021 &#124; NEC |website=www.nec.com |access-date=17 April 2020 |archive-date=3 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003004430/https://www.nec.com/en/global/ad/safecitiesindex2019/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The general level of crime is quite low.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.numbeo.com/crime/in/Moscow |title=Crime in Moscow |website=www.numbeo.com |access-date=17 April 2020 |archive-date=2 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002230229/https://www.numbeo.com/crime/in/Moscow |url-status=live }}</ref> More than 170,000 surveillance cameras in Moscow are connected to the facial recognition system. The authorities recognized the successful two-month experiment with automatic recognition of faces, gender, and age of people in real-time – and deployed the system to the whole city. The network of video surveillance unites access video cameras (95% of residential apartment buildings in the capital), cameras in the territory and in buildings of schools and kindergartens, at the [[Moscow Central Circle|MCC]] stations, stadiums, public transport stops, and bus stations, in parks, underground passages.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://geeks-world.github.io/articles/407023/index.html |title=In Moscow, the face recognition system will work through CCTV cameras |access-date=17 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623084209/https://geeks-world.github.io/articles/407023/index.html |archive-date=23 June 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The emergency numbers are the same as in all the other regions of Russia: 112 is the Single Emergency Number, 101 is the number of the Fire Service and [[Ministry of Emergency Situations (Russia)|Ministry of Emergency Situations]], 102 is the [[Police of Russia|Police]] one, 103 is the ambulance one, 104 is the Emergency Gas number.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mos.ru/en/news/item/26869073/ |title=Ambulance, police and Emergencies Ministry: Who to call in case of emergency |date=2 September 2017 |website=Moscow City Web Site |access-date=17 April 2020 |archive-date=17 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217091140/https://www.mos.ru/en/news/item/26869073/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Moscow's EMS is the second most efficient one among the world's megacities, as reported by PwC during the presentation of the international study Analysis of EMS Efficiency in Megacities of the World.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mos.ru/en/news/item/63830073/ |title=Moscow's EMS ranks as the second most efficient in the world |date=24 October 2019 |website=Moscow City Web Site |access-date=17 April 2020 |archive-date=17 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217091142/https://www.mos.ru/en/news/item/63830073/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>