DOI: 10.25136/2409-7136.2019.7.30358

Abstract: The matter under research is openness and availability of information about the law-making process of local authorities based on the example of municipal units of the Krasnoyarsk Region.  By applying the continuous reading method, the authors of the article have carried out monitoring of availability and contents of official web sites provided by 88 municipal units (44 municipal regions, 17 urban districts and 27 municipal settlements). Within the framework of the research, the authors have discovered a number of criteria that may be used to evaluate accessibility and сonveniency of using these sites for legal information inquiries. The results of the analysis demonstrate that there is access to information about municipal legal acts posted on official sites of local authorities. In the course of their research the authors have applied dialectical analysis method as well as a number of private research methods such as structured systems, formal law methods (deduction, induction, definition and division of definition), statistical observations, summary, groupping and oethers. As a result of the research, the authors have defined qualitative and quantitative indicators of openness and availability of information about rule-making processes of local authorities. They have also described gaps and defects of the process of posting such information that violate the anti-corruption principle of publicity and openness of local authorities' activities. The authors make conclusions aimed at execution of citizens' constitutional right to information about activity of local authorities. 

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0706.2017.8.23638

Abstract: The subject of this research consists in ensuring openness and accessibility of the municipal normative legal acts for citizens, organizations, state authorities, local self-government, and independent experts. The authors examine the merits and flaws of the possible ways for obtaining legal information by the concerned parties, among which are: search for the official printed publications of local self-government bodies in the archives of libraries; search on the official websites of the local self-government; search in the register of municipal normative legal acts of constituents of the Russian Federation on the website of the Ministry of Justice of Russia; sending of personal request to the bodies or officials of the local self-government. The conducted allows establishing that none of the existing methods of obtaining normative and legal information regarding the activity of local self-government does not ensure fast and convenient access to the total volume of the municipal normative legal acts of a specific municipal entity in existing version. The authors conclude that it is necessary to create an electronic information system that allows the local self-government bodies to store, systematize, and update the normative legal acts, as well as provide open access to all parties concerned.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0706.2017.8.43090

Abstract: The subject of this research consists in ensuring openness and accessibility of the municipal normative legal acts for citizens, organizations, state authorities, local self-government, and independent experts. The authors examine the merits and flaws of the possible ways for obtaining legal information by the concerned parties, among which are: search for the official printed publications of local self-government bodies in the archives of libraries; search on the official websites of the local self-government; search in the register of municipal normative legal acts of constituents of the Russian Federation on the website of the Ministry of Justice of Russia; sending of personal request to the bodies or officials of the local self-government. The conducted allows establishing that none of the existing methods of obtaining normative and legal information regarding the activity of local self-government does not ensure fast and convenient access to the total volume of the municipal normative legal acts of a specific municipal entity in existing version. The authors conclude that it is necessary to create an electronic information system that allows the local self-government bodies to store, systematize, and update the normative legal acts, as well as provide open access to all parties concerned.

DOI: 10.7256/2409-7136.2017.5.22713

Abstract: The research subject includes Russian statutory instruments, regulating disclosure of incomes, expenditures, assets, and liabilities by persons, serving as municipal officials, their spouses, and underage children. The authors study the legislative novels, introduced by the Federal Law of 03.04.2017 No 64 “On amending particular statutory instruments of the Russian Federation for the purpose of improvement of state anti-corruption policy”. Special attention is given to the content of new procedures of disclosure of incomes and expenditures, open access to such information, reasons for inspection, and the lack of a formalized procedure of initiation of a legal action by the highest official of the territorial unit of the Russian Federation in case the fact of providing unreliable or incomplete information on incomes and expenditures has been detected. The authors apply general scientific method of dialectical cognition, and the set of specific methods: historical-legal, system-structural, comparative-legal, formal-logical methods, deduction, induction, definition and division of a notion. The authors detect the problem of legal uncertainty of disclosure of information on incomes, expenditures, assets and liabilities by persons, serving as municipal officials, according to the new procedure, adopted in 2017, due to the lack of procedures in territorial units of the Russian Federation. The article considers the key advantages and disadvantages of different ways of providing information on incomes and expenditures, the problems of its further publication and storage, and the issues of legal regulation of the reasons for initiation of inspection by the highest official of the territorial unit of the Russian Federation. The authors formulate the proposals about the formation of regional legislation, regulating the procedure of disclosure of information about incomes, expenditures, assets, and liabilities by persons, serving as municipal officials, according to the new procedure, and about the improvement of the current federal legislation.