Development of public control of public service in Russia at the present stage

A negative trend in power and public relations in Russia in the last year was the decline in public confidence in the authorities. One of the possible reasons for this is the dissatisfaction of citizens with the professional activities of civil servants, the distance of this institution from society. The public service is the main institution for the implementation of the functions of the state. Therefore, one of the important organizational tasks of public administration should be to ensure transparency and social acceptability of the activities of civil servants. Such a tool by its very nature is public control, but the Russian Federation has not yet developed its legal framework and mechanisms, which determines the low efficiency of this institution of interaction between government and society. Despite a number of regulations adopted recently and aimed at increasing the transparency of public authorities, the desire of state bodies to conceal information from citizens remains. On the basis of the analysis of the forms of public control fixed in normative acts the reasons of its insufficient efficiency are revealed in the article. The authors put forward a number of proposals aimed at the development of the system of public control and designed to contribute, ultimately, to increase the legitimacy of the government as a whole, which is an urgent problem for Russia.