Public service in Russia. Rules, traditions, documents, technologies

Abstract

The article studiers reasons for the emergence and the main stages in the formation of the document system connected with the public service career development in the Russian Empire. The main imperial principles of the “service” to the state are considered. Over the last thirty years, there has been a tendency towards the revival of the public service in Russia. The article also focuses on the fundamentals of implementing the principle of accessibility and openness of information about the public service through the Internet free access to the state information resources. The present paper characterizes those resources, describes their purpose and the procedure of using them in compliance with the norms of the personal data protection legislation and with other local regulations governing the accumulation, analysis, reporting, systematization and also the provision of information concerning the civil servants. It is also worth noting that in all the time periods considered in the article, the principle of transparency of the processes and results of the civil servants’ activity remained fundamental. Summing up the results of the study of the principles, rules and technologies for the documenting of the civil service stages, one can emphasize a special, perhaps at first glance implicit, but a timehonored tradition of observing a civic duty and responsibility of the public service representatives towards themselves, towards the people and the state.