The paper analyses homeowners associations (HOAs) in Russia. Systematization of the 20 years trends in housing and communal services reform is given. Problems of HOA formation are analyzed and three periods with different patterns of HOA creation are defined.Time interval between early 1990th...

Corruptogenicity of legal acts in Russia (the presence of "legal" prerequisites for corruption in them, i.e. corruptogenious factors, is broadly recognized at present as well as the necessity to illuminate it by the official method.The article analyses the official methods of anticorruption...

The article studies relatedness as a property of economic space of a region. Intra-regional relatedness is proposed to be assessed by using the authors gravity model that allows to provide interference of physical and economic space, and identify mass centers of economic interrelations, their...

Expertise, i.e. a system of involving experts and expert organizations, is one of the most important functions of the state control and supervising activity. The purpose of the work is to identify the international trends in using different mechanisms to involve experts and expert organizations...

The analysis of local self-government practices conducted on the basis of the Laboratory for Local Administration field researches and scientific literature study reveals the information deficit of local authorities. The Federal State Statistics Service provides full information for federal and...

The article deals with efficiency networks, representing organizational structures created to solve problems in spheres of local government. It starts with the introduction to the efficiency networks concept as an instrument in overcoming challenges in municipality service delivery, including...

International humanitarian cooperation is one of the ways for Russia to propagate its interests abroad and maintain its image of a modern democratic state in front of the world community. The article discloses the multichannel implementation of Russias soft power potential, shows the necessity...

The analysis includes applied aspects of the corruption problem in activities of the authorities of the Russian Federation; it measures a degree of corruption threat in modern Russia; it spells out some meaningful mechanisms to counteract this dangerous for Russian society and state...

The article deals with problems related to the lack of a clear definition in the Russian legislation such basic government functions, such as "state control", "state supervision" and "permissive functions". Corresponding concepts are not delimited properly and largely duplicated.Based on the...

The purpose of this study was to determine existing practices of young volunteer recruitment, retention and motivation in Russian noncommercial and government organizations and compare them with the best practices in American organizations. To know this information is essential for government...