Abstract: The article examines the features of the legal regulation of social security of state civil servants from the standpoint of the methodology of chronodiscret monogeographic comparative jurisprudence. Within the framework of this methodology, various aspects of the formation and implementation of the right to social security by state civil servants have been studied since the period of the XVIII century. The object of the study was public relations on pension and medical provision of civil servants and their family members, as well as social services for civil servants. The subject of the study is the legal norms regulating these relations, as well as scientific research conducted in the field of social security of civil servants. The scientific novelty of the study is to identify the features of the current state of legal regulation of social security of civil servants, taking into account the history of its development in the conditions of legislative consolidation of guarantees of social security of civil servants, decrees of the President of the Russian Federation on the further development of social guarantees of civil service. The paradox of the modern stage of social security of civil servants is the fact that most of the provisions of the Law on Civil Servants establishing guarantees of social security of civil servants have not yet been implemented in practice and are essentially declarative. Thus, the norms on state pension provision for family members of civil servants, on mandatory state social insurance in case of illness or disability during the period of civil service, on mandatory state insurance, as well as on special medical insurance for civil servants and their family members have not been implemented.

Abstract: The subject of the research is the housing laws and regulations that define the legal statu sof civil servants and associated law-enforcement practice. The object of the research is the social relations arising in the process of civil servants executing their constitutional right to housing. The author of the article also examines peculiarities of the main guarantees of civil servants' housing rights. She focuses on the judicial practice that plays an important role in defining the most topical issues, particular disputes and recommendations on how to improve the current legislation. The research is based on the use of the systems analysis and generalisation of regulatory, theoretical and practical data and the method of comparative law. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the author covers the problems that may arise in the process of exercitising the housing rights of civil servants (in both federal districts and Russian Federation constituents) as a special professional grpu which can be used in the Russian law for further improvement of the civil service. The author also summarizes judicial practice on housing rights that involved both federal and Russian Federation civil servants. The researcher offers her definition of guarantees of hosing rights of civil servants as the legal obligations of the government to provide social benefits (housing or financial funds to buy housing) and protect the social statu sof civil servants as well as to increase the level of stability of state officials and compensate for restrictions set forth by the law for civil servants. As a conclusion, the author also describes the main means and methods of protection of civil servants' housing rights and issues that may arise in the process of exercising their housing rights. 

Abstract: The research subject is the set of legal provisions regulating the peculiarities of social services in the regions of the Russian Federation in the context of reforming the legislation in the sphere of social services. The purpose of the study is to analyze the set of problems in the sphere of legal regulation of social services on the regional level. The study is based on the legislative acts in the sphere of social services of Arkhangelsk, Ivanovo and Nizhny Novgorod regions. Special attention is given to the types of social services in these regions and to the problem of establishment of the charge for social services. The author applies system analysis and the comparative legal method of scientific cognition. The scientific novelty of the study consists in the complex legal analysis of the legal provisions of the federal and regional legislation in the sphere of social services; in the comparison of legal regulation of social services in Russian regions, and in the development of recommendations and proposals about the further improvement of social legislation in Russia. The results of the research can be used in the law making activities of federal and regional authorities aimed at the improvement of legal regulation of social services, and in research activities.
The author formulates the following proposals:
1)    Some services, offered in the regions of the Russian Federation in the sphere of social welfare, are the same as social services, which should be guaranteed by regional authorities in accordance with other provisions in the sphere of social welfare (particularly, in the sphere of health protection and healthcare delivery) and the provisions of other branches of law (for example, in the sphere of education). This fact proves a complex and intersectoral nature of social services;
2)    It is necessary to formalize not an approximate but a minimal list of social services on the federal level according to the types of social services with an opportunity to extend this list on the regional and municipal levels;
3)    It is necessary to formalize on the federal level the methodological recommendations for the detection of persons who need social services, containing particular measures, which would help reveal such persons.