Authors : Tatiana N. Mikheeva, Denis S. Mikheev and Irina A. Boyarintceva
Abstract: The aim of the study is the analysis of the bill of the Federal Law “on general principles of organization and activities of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation”. These public institutions should rely on the principle of transparency at the basis of its organization and activities. It suggests openness and publicity as at the stage of formation of the Public Chamber as in their subsequent work. Various methods were used in the investigation. Among them a system of general scientific methods and special legal methods were used: analysis, synthesis, systematic and structural methods, formal and legal methods. During the study a special importance of public chambers has been revealed as subjects of public control over the activities of state authorities and local self-government. In connection with it specific conditions were proved for their creation, main one of them is the maximum publicity, exception from candidates to the members of public chambers of government officials, judges, state and municipal employees. Bill was also analyzed from the standpoint of legal technique and that reveals significant remarks for its structure. Particular attention was paid to the rights of the Public Chamber which according to the researchers are in need of some additions. Amendments to the law were proposed which will allow it to adapt to the norms of modern challenges in order to solve the identified legal issues to resolve comments on the structure and content of the bill.
Tatiana N. Mikheeva, Denis S. Mikheev and Irina A. Boyarintceva, 2016. Publicity as a Condition for the Creation of Public Chambers. The Social Sciences, 11: 1909-1913.