Особую актуальность в настоящее время приобрели вопросы выбора глав муниципальных образований непосредственно населением (прямые выборы) или представительным...

The article examines "regulatory requirements" as a subject of state control over business in Russia. The author deliberately does not use the term "the rule of law". The article states that a set of requirements for business is wider than the legislative regulation.First, the article analyzes...

The objective to improve the effectiveness of public administration and governance in the context of cuts in public resources available for supporting public authorities is especially urgent at the time of economic crisis. Cutting payroll for federal executive bodies by 10 per cent is one of the...

The article is devoted to a critically important, in the authors opinion, issue of the ethical regulation of public servants official behavior. He considers the complex of ethical-legal mechanisms as one of the most effective ways in order to correct the obviously unsatisfactory current...

The article presents main results of the development and approbation of the technology (methods) to monitor the incorporation of the anticorruption expertise of the normative legal acts and projects (AE NLAP) in the lawmaking activity of public authorities and local government in the Russian...

The new principles of the territorial structure of local self-government became effective in Russia on 1 January 2006. Since then, the number of municipalities with the status of a rural settlement has steadily declined, and by January 1, 2014 had dropped by more than 1,800, or almost 10%. This...

The article aims at analyzing international legislation approaches to defining the public benefit status which entitles nongovernmental noncommercial organizations to government support. International definitions of public benefit status are examined in comparison with major provisions of the...

Performance management of the local governance in Russia becomes nowadays very important. It happens due to the fact that the quality of public and local services to a large extent determines the quality of the citizens day-to-day life. Nevertheless, the methods of performance management for the...

In 2004-2005 the Russian government started to implement the reform of public procurement. In order to decrease incentives to corruption and encourage competition, they established new procurement procedures. Meanwhile, according to the anecdotal evidence, since the decade of the reform,...

The Russian health sector has accumulated a lot of serious labor problems, the most important of which are: a low level of labor planning, the shortage of physicians and other medical workers, substantial disproportions in their structure. The objective of this paper is to compare some aspects...