Abstract:  
This article analyzes certain aspects of exercising state control (supervision) and municipal control over the entrepreneurial activity in the Russian Federation. Main attention is given to the questions of improving the state control (supervision), municipal control in the Russian Federation, as well as the role of Federal Law “On the Protection of Rights of Legal Entities and Private Entrepreneurs in Exercising State Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control” in the context of accomplishment of this objective. The work introduces a system of principles of the state control (supervision) and municipal control, which establish the foundation for legal regulation and practice of the examined legal relations. The main conclusion consists in the fact that the unified legislative base for activity of the oversight bodied is yet to be formed. The author’s main contribution into this research consists in formulation of suggestions aimed at improving the legal regulation of the indicated legal relations. Scientific novelty lies in proposal for improving the oversight in the area of entrepreneurial activity in the Russian Federation. The article also presents authorial position regarding the interpretation of the terms “cooperation” of the oversight bodies and legal entities, private entrepreneurs and “manipulation of market”.  

Abstract: The research subject is the range of legal and law enforcement problems of government control (supervision) and municipal control over entrepreneurial activities. The author analyzes legal regulation of this sphere of social relations, its importance and effectiveness. The main attention is paid to the problem of unification of the procedure of government control (supervision), municipal control and the role of the Federal Law “On the protection of rights of legal entities and self-employed persons upon the realization of government and municipal control (supervision)”. Besides, the author carries out theoretical and legal analysis of the concepts of “interaction” of supervisory bodies, legal entities and self-employed persons and “market manipulation”. The article demonstrates the author’s positions on the interpretation of these categories. The research methodology comprises the modern achievements in epistemology. The author applies theoretical and general philosophical methods (dialectics, the system method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling) and traditional legal methods (formal logical). The author concludes that at present there is no uniform legal basis for the activities of supervisory bodies, and there is no framework vector of its development. The main contribution of the author is the proposals about the improvement of legal regulation of the relations under consideration. The novelty of the study consists in the proposals about amending the text of the Federal Law “On the protection of rights of legal entities and self-employed persons upon the realization of government and municipal control (supervision)” with the procedure of pre-trial appeal of decisions, actions (inactions) of supervisory bodies with account for the particularities of this form of activity of public and municipal authorities. The article demonstrates the author’s position on the interpretation of the concepts of “interaction” of supervisory bodies, legal entities and self-employed persons and “market manipulation”