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: 10.25136/2409-7136.2018.5.26711

Abstract: The subject of the research is the regulations and laws of the Russian Federation that set forth an order of secondary employment at a higher educational organisation as well as researches, legal acts and law enforcement act devoted to the question of prevention and management of conflicts of interests. The authors focus on cases when a conflict of interests may arise because an individual works as a head of an educational organisation (rector or vice principal) and as a professor (department head) at the same time. In their research the authors have used the dialectical research method as well as structured-system, formal law and other methods of research. The results of the research cast light on the drawbacks of the legal regulation and methodological support of prevention and management of a conflict of interests in cases when an individual works as a head of an educational organisation and department head at the same time. The fact that there are no official explanations or recommendations of the federal authorities regarding the problem as well as contradictory judicial practice prove the importance of such analysis of corruption in social relations in cases of internal secondary employment at a higher education institution.