Grishkovets A.A. Problems of transparency provision in the activities of internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation (the case of access to the information about the work of the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs)

Abstract: The article focuses on the issues of transparency provision in the activities of the board of the Ministry of internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The author analyzes the transparency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the legal regulation of information relations in the sphere of internal affairs. The article demonstrates the author’s positions on the concept of transparency in the sphere of public administration. The main attention is paid to the development of the criteria of transparency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The author carries out theoretical and legal analysis of legal regulation of the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The article demonstrates the author’s positions on the interpretation and legal regulation of transparency. The research methodology comprises the recent achievements of epistemology. The author applies general scientific and theoretical methods (dialectics, the systems method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, and modeling), traditional legal methods (formal logical), and specific sociological research (statistical, expert assessments, etc.). The author concludes that at present, in order to ensure transparency in the system of Internal Affairs, it is necessary to improve forms and methods of administrative-legal provision of citizens’ participation in public administration. The author states the necessity to develop administrative-legal regulation of transparency in the police activities. The novelty of the study lies in the proposals about the development of forms and methods of legal regulation of information transparency. 

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