As you know, the right of citizens to information is one of the most important personal rights of a person and a citizen. The Constitution of the Russian Federation, adopted in 1993, in paragraph 4 of Article 29 establishes that everyone has the right to freely seek, receive, transmit, produce and disseminate information in any legal way. Realization of the right of citizens to information, provision of free access to information of public importance, information openness of the authorities are the most important conditions and criteria for the functioning of the rule of law. It is the realization of the right of citizens to information that ensures real, and not just formal, participation of citizens in the life of the state.

Information openness of the authorities is the main condition for civilized relations between civil society and power, the basis of normal and efficient business activities, as well as combating corruption in power structures

On August 10, 2011, the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, in a number of his decrees (No. 1060 - 1080), approved a list of information about the activities of certain ministries and departments, which should be posted on official websites on the Internet. These decrees are aimed at ensuring the information transparency of nineteen federal departments, including the power bloc and defense. According to the established requirements, in addition to general information containing the name, contact details, structure, list of powers, information about leaders, departments will be required to post on their websites information about their rule-making and current activities, including statistical data, information about personnel changes, about measures on combating corruption adopted by the body, data on income and property of public civil servants and their families, the results of consideration of applications from citizens and organizations.

Access to information about the activities of authorities can be provided in the following ways:

2) posting information on the Internet;

3) placement of information in the premises occupied by the authorities, and in other places designated for these purposes;

4) familiarization with information in the premises occupied by the authorities, as well as through library and archival funds;

5) provision of information upon request.

Information openness of state and municipal authorities implies the effectiveness of not only direct, but also feedback. Feedback bodies state power- this is a part of the process of political communication, which provides the authorities with information about the state of public consciousness, opinions, moods and views of the society on the policy pursued by the authorities, reflects the results of activities, the consequences of control actions, the reaction to decisions made

17 Civil society: concept, structure, meaning, relationship with the state

Civil society is a society with developed economic, political, legal, cultural relations between its members, independent of the state, but interacting with it; it is a union of individuals with a developed, integral, active personality, high human qualities (freedom, rights, duty, morality, property, etc.).

Signs (features) of civil society are:

High consciousness of people;

Their high material security on the basis of their ownership of property;

Broad ties between members of society;

The presence of state power, controlled, overcoming alienation from society, power, where its bearers are just hired workers with appropriate competence, skill, and the ability to solve society's problems;

decentralization of power;

Transfer of part of the power to self-government bodies;

Coordination of positions instead of conflicts;

A developed sense of collectivity (but not a herd), provided by the consciousness of belonging to a common culture, nation;

The personality of civil society is a person focused on creation, spirituality.

The most complete provision of the rights and freedoms of man and citizen

The system-forming principle that generates the intellectual and volitional energy of society is a person with his natural needs and interests, outwardly expressed in legal rights and obligations. The constituent parts and elements of the structure are various communities and associations of people and stable relations between them.

The structure of modern Russian civil society can be represented in the form of five main systems, reflecting the corresponding spheres of its life. These are social, economic, political, spiritual, cultural and information systems.

Civil society is a legal democratic society, where the connecting factor is the recognition, provision and protection of the natural and acquired rights of man and citizen. The ideas of civil society about the rationality and justice of power, about the freedom and well-being of the individual correspond to the ideas of the priority of law, the unity of law and law, and the legal differentiation of the activities of various branches of state power. Civil society on the way to legal develops together with the state. The rule of law can be considered the result of the development of civil society and a condition for its further improvement.

The rule of law does not oppose civil society, but creates conditions for its normal functioning and development. Such interaction contains a guarantee of the resolution of emerging contradictions in a civilized way, a guarantee of the exclusion of social cataclysms, a guarantee of the non-violent progressive development of society. Civil society is a free democratic legal society focused on a specific person, creating an atmosphere of respect for legal traditions and laws, general humanistic ideals, ensuring freedom of creative and entrepreneurial activity, creating the possibility of achieving well-being and exercising the rights of a person and a citizen, organically developing mechanisms of restriction and control for the activities of the state.

STATE LAW

V. A. TOMIN

ENSURING OPEN INFORMATION ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE BODIES
AUTHORITIES: REGULATORY AND ENFORCEMENT ISSUES

The state acts as the main regulator of information relations, the creator of reasons for the production and dissemination of political information, one of the main actual owners of the material infrastructure of production and distribution mass media. Realization of the right of citizens to information about the activities of public authorities is one of the key guarantees of the principle of democracy. More than two years have passed since the adoption of the Federal Law "On ensuring access to information on the activities government agencies and bodies local government» dated February 9, 2009 No. 8-FZ. Recall that this law entered into force on January 1, 2010. Time was given to ministries, departments, local governments to adopt by-laws regulating information exchange with society.

The law was developed taking into account the provisions of the Federal Target Program " Electronic Russia(2002-2010)”, approved by the Government Decree Russian Federation dated January 28, 2002 No. 65. Also in the Doctrine of Information Security of the Russian Federation, approved by the President of the Russian Federation on September 9, 2000 No. Pr-1895, and in the Strategy for the Development of the Information Society in the Russian Federation, approved by the President of the Russian Federation on February 7, 2008 No. Pr-212, it was noted that the current state of affairs in the country requires an urgent solution to such a problem as improving the regulatory legal framework regulating, among other things, the mechanisms for exercising the rights of citizens to receive information and access to it. Thus, ensuring guaranteed free access of citizens to information was designated as one of the most important tasks of the state.

The main objectives of the Law "On ensuring access to information on the activities of state bodies and local governments" are to ensure the openness of the activities of state bodies and local governments, the active use of information technology, objective informing citizens of the Russian Federation and civil society structures about the activities of state bodies and local governments. self-government.

The Law under consideration establishes a unified procedure for the provision of information by state bodies and local self-government bodies on their activities.

The main principles for realizing the right of citizens and organizations to access information about the activities of state bodies and local governments are the openness and availability of information, the reliability of information, the observance of the rights and interests of third parties when providing information, the responsibility of state bodies and local governments for violating the rights of information users for access to information.

The specified Law defines the methods of access to information about the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies.

Information on the activities of state bodies and local governments in accordance with the user's request is provided as in oral, and documented, including in the form electronic document.

The peculiarity of the Federal Law “On ensuring access to information on the activities of state bodies and local governments” is that for the first time here the procedure for accessing information on the activities of state bodies and local governments in electronic form is legislatively established. In order to implement the right of citizens and organizations to receive information in in electronic format state bodies and local self-government bodies connect their information systems to the Internet, open their official websites for unlimited access, allocate e-mail addresses for receiving requests and transmitting the requested information.

This Law defines the composition of information on the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies, posted in the information and telecommunication network "Internet". On this basis, developed and approved in in due course lists of information on the activities of individual state bodies, as well as local governments, posted in information and telecommunication networks, including the Internet information and telecommunication network.

The frequency of posting information on the Internet, as well as the methods and forms of its posting are established directly in the regulatory legal acts state bodies and local self-government bodies that approve the lists. At the same time, the Law provides that the timing of updating information on the activities of state bodies and local governments should ensure the timeliness of the implementation and protection of information users of their rights, freedoms and legitimate interests.

The Law in question has not yet had an analogue in Russia, but similar laws have been adopted in many states, the former republics of the USSR. Thus, in the Kyrgyz Republic, since 2006, the Law “On access to information held by state bodies and local self-government bodies of the Kyrgyz Republic” has been in force.

A simple comparative analysis of these laws demonstrates the excessive "framework" of the Federal Law. For example, in Russian law the right to attend meetings of collegiate state bodies is determined.

“Collegial state bodies and collegiate bodies of local self-government ensure the possibility of the presence of citizens ( individuals), including representatives of organizations (legal entities), public associations, state bodies and local self-government bodies, at their meetings, and other state bodies and local self-government bodies - at meetings of their collegiate bodies.

Presence specified persons at these meetings is carried out in accordance with the regulations of state bodies or other regulatory legal acts, regulations of local governments or other municipal legal acts.

The Law of the Kyrgyz Republic regulates the mechanism for exercising this right in detail. Separately, the right to “make notes, as well as take photographs, audio and video recordings” of the meeting is defined.

A similar "gaps" in the Federal Law is also seen in relation to the regulation of other ways of obtaining information by citizens. It is left to the bodies of state power and local self-government to determine the procedure for obtaining information, which calls into question the practical implementation of this Law.

The main advantages of the Federal Law under consideration include detailed regulation of the procedure for placing by a state authority or local self-government body of information about its activities in the information and telecommunication network "Internet". The law defines the concept of "official website of a state body or local self-government body" and defines in detail the scope of mandatory information on the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies posted on the Internet. Another advantage of this Law was the establishment of the right of information users to draw up their requests in the form of an “electronic document” and send them by e-mail.

For the first time, it was enshrined in the Law legal definition the concept of "information about the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies" - the object of regulation of this Law. This concept is key, since it is on its content that the determination of the scope of those legal relations to which this Federal Law and all enshrined in it legal guarantees providing access to information.

According to paragraph 1 of Art. 1 of the said Law “information on the activities of state bodies and local governments” is “information (including documented) created within their powers by state bodies, their territorial bodies, local governments or organizations subordinate to state bodies, local governments (hereinafter - subordinate organizations), or received by the indicated bodies and organizations.

After analyzing the definition of the concept of “information about the activities of state bodies and local governments” formulated by the legislator, two main criteria can be distinguished according to which information or documents can relate to this type of information: information must either be created by the state bodies themselves, their territorial bodies, organizations, subordinate to state bodies, or it must go to state bodies, their territorial bodies, organizations subordinate to state bodies, within their powers.

With this in mind, we can conclude that virtually any information available to the authority (created by it itself or received from external sources) will be referred to as “information about the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies”. This means that any document that is in the authority within its powers or information in other forms (including in the form of a video recording, audio recording, photograph, etc.) is subject to the regulation of this Law. At the same time, the authority has the right to restrict access to information

only in the event that this information is classified in accordance with the procedure established by federal law as information constituting a state or other secret protected by law (Article 5 of the Law).

Thus, in the Law under consideration, the concept of “information about the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies” is interpreted very broadly, which undoubtedly meets the goals of creating the most favorable conditions for ensuring access of citizens and other persons to this information.

Nevertheless, the period of application of the Federal Law "On ensuring access to information on the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies" showed that there are problems in interpreting the concept of "information on the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies" and, accordingly, problems in applying the norms of this Federal law to relations on obtaining information from authorities. The available examples of judicial practice show that a rather narrow understanding of information about the activities of state bodies and local governments is being formed, and this largely limits the scope of the Federal Law “On ensuring access to information about the activities of state bodies and local governments”.

Determination of the Cassation Board Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated February 2, 2010 No. KAS09-672 was left unchanged The decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated November 23, 2009 in case No. GKPI09-1460 to refuse to satisfy the citizen's application for invalidation of paragraphs. 23, 24 of the Rules for maintaining the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and providing the information contained therein, approved by the Decree Government of the Russian Federation dated June 19, 2002 No. 438, paras. 31, 32 of the Rules for maintaining the Unified State Register individual entrepreneurs and providing the information contained therein, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of October 16, 2003 No. 630. These paragraphs were disputed by the applicant in court due to the fact that they establish the obligation to pay a fee for providing information from these registers both in paper form, and electronically by posting on the official website of the Federal tax service Russian Federation. According to the Applicant, the disputed points are contrary to Art. 8 of the Federal Law "On information, information technology and on the protection of information” dated July 27, 2006 No. 119-FZ, as well as Art. 20 of the Federal Law "On Providing Access to Information on the Activities of State Bodies and Local Self-Government Bodies", which established that information on the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies posted by such bodies on the Internet is provided free of charge.

In the Ruling dated February 2, 2010 No. KAS09-672 Board of Cassation of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation pointed out that the applicant's argument that the information contained in the Unified state register legal entities and the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs, as related to information on the activities of state bodies and local governments posted in information and telecommunication networks, should be provided free of charge, erroneous and based on a misinterpretation of the rule of law. The court noted that “information about the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies relates directly to their activities as relevant authorities, in particular, reveals their structure, powers, formation procedure and other aspects related to their activities.”

From a system analysis of Art. 1, 13 of the Federal Law “On Ensuring Access to Information on the Activities of State Bodies and Local Self-Government Bodies”, the court concluded that the information contained in these state registers is not among the information on the activities of state bodies.

The following examples of the application by the courts of the Federal Law “On Ensuring Access to Information on the Activities of State Bodies and Local Self-Government Bodies” are also indicative. Kuibyshevsky district court Petersburg, a case was considered on the claim of a citizen against the Office Federal Service on supervision in the field of consumer rights protection and human well-being in St. Petersburg on recognition illegal decisions the latter on the refusal to provide, at the request of a citizen, information on the number Vehicle on the balance sheet of this body, on the number Money spent on repair work in the house where this authority is located, on the installation of stationary fences in the yard of the said house, as well as on the timing and executors specified works. The court refused to satisfy the requirements of the citizen with reference to the fact that the information requested by him does not apply to “information about the activities of state bodies and local governments” in the sense that is laid down by the legislator in the Federal Law “On Providing Access to Information on the Activities of State bodies and bodies of local self-government. This conclusion of the court was based on the fact that the information requested by the applicant “refers to economic activity interested person and is not related to his direct powers, the implementation of functions and the fulfillment of the goals and objectives for the implementation of which this particular state body was formed.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg considered the case on the application of citizens to recognize as illegal the refusal to provide information at their request, sent to the bodies of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Affairs civil defense, emergencies and elimination of consequences natural Disasters and concerning the provision of applicants with copies specific documents compiled from the results of compliance audits fire safety in one of educational institutions Petersburg (copies of acts of inspections, orders to eliminate the violations committed, decisions on bringing to administrative responsibility and other documents). The court denied the applicants' claims with reference to the fact that the information requested by the applicants does not relate to information about the activities of those authorities whose actions are being appealed, in the sense defined by the norms of Art. 1 of the Federal Law "On ensuring access to information on the activities of state bodies and local governments", since the requested documents are issued in relation to "a specific person and are of an individual nature."

The interpretation of the term “information about the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies”, set out in the above examples, which is given by the courts in the above precedents of judicial practice, does not fully correspond to the literal meaning of this concept arising from the law.

The literal interpretation of the concept of "information about the activities of public

bodies and bodies of local self-government” makes it possible to include in this category any information and documents that are in the possession of authorities, regardless of the nature and content of these information and documents. With this in mind, information about legal entities and individual entrepreneurs contained in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs, which are maintained tax authorities, and information about the property on the balance sheet of any authority and the property spent by this authority budget funds, and documents drawn up by an authority in relation to a particular person in the course of implementation by this authority control measures are “information about the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies”, since they correspond to the two established in paragraph 1 of Art. 1 of the Federal Law "On ensuring access to information on the activities of state bodies and local governments" criteria: this information was created by a government body within its powers or received by this body also within its powers. At the same time, as already noted, the very nature of the information (the presence in it of information about a particular physical or legal entity, on the economic aspects of the functioning of the authority, etc.) does not affect the relevance of such information to the category "information about the activities of state bodies and authorities", since the legislative definition of the concept contained in paragraph 1 of Art. 1 of the Federal Law "On ensuring access to information on the activities of state bodies and local governments" does not make the assignment of information or documents to this type of information dependent on the nature and content of this information (documents).

Thus, it can be concluded that the folding arbitrage practice application of the Federal Law "On ensuring access to information about the activities of state bodies and local governments" is based on an incorrect interpretation of the term "information about the activities of state bodies and local governments." As a result, a significant amount of information held by the authorities and of a socially significant nature is excluded from the scope of regulation of this Law. This provision does not allow to fully ensure the rights of citizens to access information about the activities of government bodies, which means that it does not allow achieving the main goal of the Law - to ensure the accountability of government bodies to society.

In conclusion, we will define the main tasks facing state authorities and local self-government, the solution of which will expand the possibilities of remote access of citizens to information about the activities of state bodies based on the use of modern information and communication technologies:
1) the development of departmental sites on the Internet, the completeness and timeliness of placing relevant information on them, ease of use, as well as access through them to the data contained in departmental information systems;
2) formation of an infrastructure of public access to information posted on the Internet about the activities of public authorities and provided public services ah organizations and citizens;
3) introduction into the practice of the activities of departments of centers for processing telephone calls from citizens;
4) creation unified system information and reference support of citizens on the provision of public services and the interaction of citizens with government agencies.

In order for citizens to really participate in governance, they must have the necessary information.

Openness of management - a concept that consolidates the basic principles of openness of bodies executive power, tasks and mechanisms for their implementation and containing a system of strategic guidelines in ensuring transparency, accountability and accountability of the authorities to civil society, the formation of a dialogue between authorities and citizens, public associations and entrepreneurs.

We have already talked about the need to post information about the activities of government agencies on departmental websites (Federal Law No. 8-FZ). The next step was the introduction of the concept of open management. In 2014, the Government of the Russian Federation established the Openness Standard (Fig. 10.3) federal bodies executive branch (FOIV).

Rice. 10.3.

The standard is mandatory for implementation federal agencies. It aims to increase information openness authorities; their accountability; expanding opportunities for public participation in the development and examination of decisions made; development of mechanisms public control.

The concept of openness was developed by the Expert Council and approved by the government. It describes the basic principles and mechanisms of openness.

Principles of openness:

• information openness - timely provision of open, publicly available and reliable information about the activities of federal executive authorities;
• understandability - presentation of the goals, objectives, plans and results of the activities of federal executive authorities in a form that ensures the perception of information by society;
• involvement - ensuring the possibility of participation of citizens, businesses, public associations in the development and implementation management decisions;
• accountability - the provision of information by state bodies on their activities, taking into account the requests and priorities of civil society.

Among the established openness mechanisms relate:

• work with reference (target) groups;
• adoption of action plans and annual public declaration of goals and objectives;
• posting information about activities, including on the website of the department;
• public reporting;
• independent anti-corruption expertise and public monitoring;
• ensuring the clarity of legal regulation;
• work with open data;
• interaction with the public council;
• interaction with the media;
• work with appeals of citizens and public associations.

This work should be carried out in every federal agency.

The Guidelines for the implementation of the principles of openness reveal the content of each mechanism. In turn, the Monitoring and Evaluation Methodology is aimed at studying the results of the implementation of these principles (Fig. 10.4).

Self-examination is carried out in the federal executive authorities for each of the mechanisms of openness, and all indicators are evaluated by the fact of the presence or absence of a value. Experts evaluate the effectiveness of openness mechanisms on a 10-point scale, taking into account criteria such as:

• orientation of the work of the department towards the end consumer (reference groups, citizens, public associations);
• involvement of the expert community and public associations;
• transparency of the work of federal executive authorities.

Rice. 10.4.

Openness monitoring is carried out by the Government Commission annually, starting from 2014.

Based on the received data, openness indices:

• private index shows the level of openness for a certain parameter;
• composite index reflects the perception of the openness of the Federal Executive Office of its target audience;
• complex index openness reflects the general level of openness of federal executive authorities.

Based on the complex index, the openness rating of federal executive authorities is created, the leaders of which are the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, and the Minkavkaz, Rosavtodor and the Bailiff Service are recognized as the least open agencies.

• Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of January 30, 2014 No. 93-r "On Approval of the Concept of Openness of Federal Executive Authorities".

The President of the Russian Federation is the head of state, the guarantor of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the rights and freedoms of man and citizen. In accordance with the procedure established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, he takes measures to protect the sovereignty of the Russian Federation, its independence and state integrity, ensures the coordinated functioning and interaction of state authorities.

In Art. 11 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation stipulates that state power in the Russian Federation is exercised by the President of the Russian Federation, the Federal Assembly (Federation Council and The State Duma), the Government of the Russian Federation and the courts of the Russian Federation.

According to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the President is not included in any of the branches of power. Thus, there is no doubt that the President of the Russian Federation is not included in any legislature, nor in judiciary. But to the extent that the President of the Russian Federation directly performs the functions of executive power or determines the content of the activities of the Government, the principle of separation of powers should apply to him.

An analysis of the powers of the President of the Russian Federation gives grounds to believe that the President is not only "embedded" in the system of executive power, but actually heads it. This applies not only to the leadership of individual federal executive bodies, but also to the appointment of heads of executive power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Information openness of the decisions of the President of the Russian Federation is ensured through two channels. The first is the openness of the decisions of the President himself and his subordinate bodies. This, for example, is a presidential message to parliament - an appeal by the head of state to the country's highest legislative (representative) body of state power with a report on the activities done or on legislative and other plans for the coming period. According to the Constitution of the Russian Federation (Article 84), the President of the Russian Federation addresses Federal Assembly with annual messages on the situation in the country, on the main directions of internal and foreign policy states.

The second is the establishment by legal acts of the President of the Russian Federation of the rules of openness, which are obligatory both for himself and for other authorities. And here, of course, one cannot fail to mention the already mentioned Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 31, 1993 No. 2334 “On Additional Guarantees of the Right of Citizens to Information”

It should also be noted Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 24, 1995 No. 1178 "On measures to ensure openness and general accessibility of normative acts", which was adopted in order to bring the procedure for publishing normative acts of the President of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation, federal executive authorities, bodies executive power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local self-government bodies in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Law of the Russian Federation "On state secret» and Art. 10 of the Federal Law "On Information, Informatization and Information Protection". By this Decree, the head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, within three months, was instructed to prepare and submit proposals for ensuring, in the prescribed manner, the openness and public accessibility of unpublished regulatory acts of the President of the Russian Federation establishing legal status federal executive authorities, executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local authorities, organizations, public associations, as well as the rights, freedoms and obligations of citizens, the procedure for their implementation, and contained in secret regulations the President of the Russian Federation of information on these issues that do not constitute a state secret.

Speaking about the information openness of the President of the Russian Federation, one cannot but touch upon the activities in this area of ​​the bodies subordinate to him and officials. Thus, the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation is a state body formed in accordance with paragraph "i" of Art. 83 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which ensures the activities of the President of the Russian Federation and exercises control over the execution of his decisions. At present, the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation has a very wide range of powers and often actively interferes in the activities of other state bodies, primarily the executive branch.

When considering issues of providing information on the activities of executive authorities, it is advisable to pay special attention to the provisions of Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of February 12, 2003 No. 98 “On ensuring access to information on the activities of the Government of the Russian Federation and federal executive authorities”. It is rightly noted in the legal literature that the adoption of this Government Decree has become milestone formation of information openness of state bodies.

By this resolution, in order to ensure the exercise of the rights of citizens and organizations to access information about the activities of the Government of the Russian Federation and federal executive bodies and in accordance with the Federal Law "On Information, Informatization and Information Protection", the Government of the Russian Federation approved a list of information on the activities of the Government and federal executive authorities, mandatory for placement in information systems common use.

At the same time, the federal executive authorities were instructed to ensure the access of citizens and organizations to information about the activities of the federal executive authorities, with the exception of information classified as restricted information, by creating information resources in accordance with the list approved by this resolution; timely and regularly post the specified informational resources in public information systems, including the Internet; systematically inform citizens and organizations about the activities of federal executive bodies in other ways provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Information on the activities of the Government of the Russian Federation, mandatory for placement in public information systems, contains:

• * in federal laws, decrees of the President of the Russian Federation and other regulatory legal acts constituting legal basis activities of the Government of the Russian Federation, including the Regulations of the Government, Regulations on the Government Office;
• * normative legal and other acts of the Government;
• * decisions of courts on invalidation of acts of the Government;
• * texts of official speeches and statements of the Chairman and members of the Government;
• * lists and texts international treaties and agreements of the Russian Federation concluded (signed) by the Government;
• * Reviews of appeals of citizens and organizations to the Government, generalized information on the results of consideration of such appeals and measures taken.

This is also information:

• * on the composition, tasks and activities of coordinating and advisory bodies formed by the Government;
• * about the federal targeted programs;
• * on legislative activity of the Government;
• * about the programs and plans of the Government;
• * about official visits and working trips of the Chairman and members of the Government, as well as government delegations;
• * about events held at the official residence of the Government (sessions, meetings, meetings, press conferences, seminars and briefings, round tables), and other information about the daily activities of the Government;
• * about materials for the Government meeting (as well as the agenda of the Government meeting);
• * about the decisions taken at the meetings of the Government, and about their implementation;
• * on the interaction of the Government with other state authorities of the Russian Federation, public associations, political parties, trade unions and other organizations, including international ones;
• * on the main indicators of the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation and the implementation federal budget;
• * about public service in the Government Office;
• * about the Chairman and members of the Government, heads of federal executive bodies, deputy heads, heads structural divisions Government Office, as well as heads of organizations and bodies formed under the Government;
• * about the tasks and functions of the structural units of the Government Office, organizations and bodies formed under the Government;
• * on the procedure for the work of the Government Office, including the procedure for the work of the unit for working with citizens' appeals, as well as telephone numbers and address details (postal address, e-mail address, etc.), phone numbers of the inquiry service.

By the end of April 2018, an updated openness standard will be adopted federal ministries and departments, as well as guidelines on the introduction of the principles of openness in the regions. This was announced by the Minister of the Russian Federation for Open Government Mikhail Abyzov on December 15 during round table on issues of increasing the openness of state bodies of the Novosibirsk region. The minister stressed that the key goal of increasing the openness of power is to solve real problems that people face in everyday life.

According to Mikhail Abyzov, an open state is built on three main principles: high-quality, understandable and objective presentation of information to people about the work of government bodies, involvement of people in the adoption government decisions and implementation of public control functions. The government must understand its accountability to the people for whom it exists, the minister stressed. These principles formed the basis of the Standard of openness of federal executive bodies, which has been implemented over the past few years. In addition, in four pilot regions- Moscow, Tula, Krasnoyarsk Territory and Tatarstan - tested the regional standard of openness.

Based on this experience, we are approaching the end of government powers and would like to adopt an updated standard and a new concept by the end of April 2018 that takes into account the developments over these 5 years for the federal authorities, as well as adopt methodological recommendations to ensure the main mechanisms of openness for the regions. This project was prepared by the Higher School of Economics and will soon be discussed at the government site. We will form an open platform so that this mechanism is not somehow mothballed, so that the standard is updated and includes the library best practices and developments in all regions of the Russian Federation,” Mikhail Abyzov said.

The Minister noted that in the future I would like to count on greater involvement of citizens in the affairs of the state. But people are not ready to waste their time and energy just to talk about general topics - they need a solution to problems, Mikhail Abyzov emphasized.

If the agenda that we propose for this dialogue does not correspond to the challenges that a person faces, if it is irrelevant, then it is meaningless. If we do not discuss issues of education, healthcare, housing and communal services, but start talking about cloud technologies, this agenda is not needed. People want to see changes from these discussions, they want to see how their proposals are taken into account,” the minister stressed.

All this should be based on a new culture of officials. If the regulations and charters on the activities of state bodies do not include powerful blocks related to responsibility to civil society, then it will not be possible to change the culture of officials.

The minister also called for raising the level of political and public responsibility of specific heads of departments in the regions: so that the regional minister of health, education, and not just the governor, work with citizens' appeals and resolve issues.

Today, the authorities need to expand an open, reasoned dialogue with representatives social movement, public organizations, noted, in turn, the acting governor of the Novosibirsk region Andrey Travnikov.

Justified criticism and the ability to listen to each other is always beneficial common cause if the parties are set for a constructive dialogue. Thanks to the implementation of the Open Government project, new platforms for dialogue began to develop in the public space in our region. This is due to issues that have caused public outcry. It is obvious that the forms of discussion and communication must be changed. But dialogue and various public discussions should not be for the sake of discussion, any discussions should lead to some decisions, compromises and movement,” the head of the region believes.

The system of relations between a person and the state, a person and power will change with the use of new technologies, Mikhail Abyzov believes. The formats of open discussions, offline discussions, in his opinion, will be supplemented by online interaction formats.

My personal conviction is that it is impossible to translate everything into electronic form: work with experts, issues of public control. I have not seen successful examples where the openness of power is qualitatively implemented without face-to-face conversation, without emotions and contact, which are the link between power and society. Nevertheless, these modern formats also need to be implemented. Because it's the most fast track get feedback on a wide range of issues. On the other hand, it is a quick service for people in terms of resolving the issues that bother them. But the main thing is that it does not turn into a fetish, so that it is relevant, convenient and useful,” Mikhail Abyzov noted.

In the Novosibirsk region, as in other regions of the Russian Federation, the project "Budget for Citizens" is being implemented, on the basis of which, among other things, electronic services helping citizens to understand budgetary relations. On November 24, the Open Budget portal of the Novosibirsk Region was put into operation.

Launching the portal provides three perspectives. Firstly, the portal is becoming a significant tool for improving the quality of public control in budget matters. Secondly, the portal is a good auxiliary tool for improving the financial literacy of the population and, thirdly, the portal is considered in the future as a single technological platform for posting open data on the results of the formation and execution of the budget," the Acting Deputy Prime Minister explained. Novosibirsk region Vitaly Golubenko.

The results of the implementation of the project "Budget for Citizens" in the regions will be summed up on December 20 at a meeting government commission to coordinate the activities of the Open Government with the participation of Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, Mikhail Abyzov said. According to the minister, this product becomes a kind of navigator, giving a person an understanding of what money is spent on and, most importantly, an understanding of what kind of support from the budget and in what situations a person can receive.

But a person can simultaneously be a citizen entitled to subsidies and benefits, and to social assistance and help for families with children. We need a list of questions in which you can tick off and see in what order and what a person is entitled to. To get this service in a few clicks. It will be such a calculator of rights for a person. "Budget for citizens" should be focused on the common man, on getting useful and necessary information in three clicks," Mikhail Abyzov stressed.

As for the presentation of the budget itself, according to the minister, it is necessary to make a presentation on one slide with clear and specific information about how many kindergartens will be built, how many schools and hospitals will be repaired, how many perinatal centers will be built. All this should also be noted on the geomap.

I am convinced that the common man is primarily interested in the openness of power in the municipality and in the region where he lives and faces problems. The topic of healthcare comes to the fore. People used to want to live, but now they want to live long, great. And the more we do in the field of healthcare, the greater the demands will be. We are waiting for increased interest and radically increased demands on the part of the person to the quality of work of our healthcare institutions. In order not to come to a conflict, we need the right threads of communication and interaction,” Mikhail Abyzov noted.

He expressed the hope that after the transfer of authority for independent quality assessment social services regional public chambers, such an assessment will become more objective.