Abstract: The subject of this research is the legal norms and law enforcement practice in the area of social security of civil servants trough implementation of insurance mechanism. The object of this research is insurance as a special organizational-legal form of social security of the citizens. A detailed analysis is conducted on the various forms and types of insurance (compulsory and voluntary, social and state), offered by a legislator in social security of this category of employees. Special attention is given to the compulsory state social insurance, its legal nature, peculiarities of medical insurance of civil servants. The scientific novelty consists in carrying out a summarized analysis of the development and current state of legal regulation and law enforcement practice on the questions of establishment and implementation of insurance mechanisms of social security of civil servants. It is determined that the right of civil servants to social security is exercised mostly through implementation of  various forms and types of insurance mechanisms of heterogeneous sectoral nature. The compulsory state social insurance is envisaged only with regards to civil and municipal servants, and represents a subtype of compulsory social insurance. There is a need for legalization of this concept by means of introduction of corresponding amendments to social-insurance legislation. Compulsory state insurance also has the key features of social-security relations, which allows viewing it as one of the organizational-legal forms of the system of social security. The author suggests regulating the question of insurance coverage of civil servants on the federal level in case of infliction of harm to their life and health while on service, as well as pass a law on medical insurance of public servants.

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.