The article considers the issues of and the prospects for developing territories that were associated with the city of Moscow during last administrative reform. This refers to so called New Moscow, which consists of the settlements and districts with different living standards and conditions. On the one hand, it set a task for Moscow authorities to even those conditions; and on the one hand, to include local administrative staff into the common system of management. Authors link majority of the issues to the inefficiency of local self-government models that have developed so far in modern Russia, and especially in megacities where the multileveled governing is allowed and the redistribution of powers in favor of the superior authorities is practiced. Particular attention is paid to the specifics of civil participation of residents in the process of political decision-making at the new territories, to the residents’ satisfaction with the activity of the authorities. Some solutions for the fastest assimilation of local communities to new conditions are proposed.