Abstract: The subject of the analysis is the monographic research by Pavel Aleksandrovich Kabanov, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor of the department of criminology of Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, devoted to the problem of “Anti-corruption monitoring in Russian regions: issues of theory and practice of legal regulation” and published at Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the MIA of Russia. The purpose of the research is the assessment of the quality of the scientific work devoted to the scientifically and practically important problem. The tasks of the research are: a) searching for, detecting and describing the merits of the work; b) searching for, detecting and describing the issues requiring further development by the author or other scholars. The research methodology is based on the dialectical materialism and the related methods of system and structural analysis. The scientific novelty consists in the authors’ assessment of a significant innovative monographic research by professor Kabanov devoted to the issues of organization and realization of anti-corruption monitoring in the Russian Federation on regional and municipal level. The authors’ conclusions have a significant scientific importance for the development of anti-corruption monitoring as an independent measuring tool of anti-corruption practice. 

Keywords: anti-corruption legislation, anti-corruption informing, legal regulation, anti-corruption monitoring, corruption prevention, anti-corruption policy, struggle against corruption, Corruption, anti-corruption behavior, effectiveness of struggle against corruption