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Serguei FABRICHNY, Alexander ZHUKOVSKY. Municipal Service in the Framework of Developing Local Self-government. The article co-authored by Chairman of Novgorod Oblast Public Service Committee and Director of Municipal Research and Educational Institution “Dialogue”, Veliky Novgorod, examines methodological problems of establishing municipal service in the contradictory conditions of developing local self-government in Russian Federation. General and specific features of that process are disclosed in the context of Russian and European experience; contemporary Russian model of local self-government is described, the authors’ view of the prospects of its development and development of municipal service as one of the foremost tools of its realization is presented.
 

Evgueny RYABOV. What Is TOS^[1] and What Is It For? The article by Head of the City of Staraya Russa  and Staraya Russa Rayon scrutinises the experience of many years of reforming the institute of territorial public/community self-government (TOS) in urban and rural areas. The essence and content of the activities of street and house committees, neighbourhood (“micro-rayon”) councils, settlement elders and commissionaires are disclosed along with the nature of interface between TOS and local authorities. The author uses the formula “not supervising, but acting” to define the principle of TOS activities.
 

Isac FREYDMAN. "The Red Log Cabin" (“Krasnaya Izba”) as a Method of Administrative Solution (Veliky Novgorod Tourism Office). The essaby Head of the Department for International Relations, City Marketing and Tourism of Veliky Novgorod recalls the experience of establishing an effective mechanism for interface between City Administration and private sector in the field of tourism development, which is one of the core factors of promoting business activity and a major source of revenues for the city budget. Special focus is on the description of the information component and utilizing successful international experience (Strasbourg, France).
 

Tamara MAKOVNIK. Swedish Experience of (Public) Budgeting. The article by Candidate of Economics, Head of the Division of Federal Treasury under the Russian Federation Ministry of Finance in Novgorod Rayon, summarises the materials of seminars conducted by Swedish Institute of Public Administration and Veliky Novgorod Branch of the Northwest Academy of Public Administration. Fundamentals of the budget system and financing of public institutions are discussed. Equalization and commune (municipality) support measures are analysed, general principles of Swedish tax system are presented.
 

Alexander SHANTALOV, Alexey FINIKOV. Another Look upon the Tax Code. A brief essay by Candidate of Technical Science, Deputy Director of Development and Investment Promotion Agency, and his colleague, Deputy Director of “Invest-In Company” presents an express assessment of the latest amendments to the tax law and case study of dynamics of tax burden on a simulated enterprise. A pessimistic conclusion regarding a reverse negative relationship of tax burden and reduction of tax rates is made.
 

Olga KRESTYANINOVA. Reform of Economic Relations in the System of Mandatory Health Insurance (MHI). The view of the current state of economic basis of mandatory health insurance system is offered by Senior Lecturer of Veliky Novgorod Branch of Northwest Academy of Public Administration. The article scrutinises the results of measures taken since 1993 for shaping MHI infrastructure and funding sources, and use of those sources. Issues of control over ear-marked use of funds and adjustment of MHI system to changes in the tax law are discussed.
 

Serguey VASILYEV. Non-profit Organisations in the US and Russia: Self-administration and Funding Techniques. The essay by Assistant Professor of Department of Law and Administration at Veliky Novgorod Branch of Northwest Academy of Public Administration views techniques of interaction between public administration bodies and non-profit organisations in the US and Novgorod region. Both invariants and national specifics of such techniques are identified. Recommendations for such interface in the Russian conditions are offered.
 

Alexey KOSTYUKOV. Political and Legal Issues of Shaping Regional Civil Service in Russian Federation. Candidate of Political Science, Director of Veliky Novgorod Branch of Northwest Academy of Public Administration, discusses in his article the content of major contradictions in the process of forming the institute of civil service and strengthening statehood, as well as the legal and ideological basis of those processes. He analyses the standpoint of top national leaders and provides assessment of the prospects of the above process.
 

Dmitry ZAVIDOVSKY. Formation of Human Resource Potential of Municipal Service: Problems, Experience, and Tendencies.  Increasing requirements to the staff of local self-government bodies necessitate a set of measures for improvement of educational and professional level of municipal servants. The article by Candidate of Historic Science, Deputy Chairman of Novgorod Oblast Public Service Committee contains an analysis of the results of the efforts by Oblast Administration in the said field over the recent years. The article shows the dynamics and major tendencies in the changes of municipal staff.
 

Nadezhda Il’YNA. Methodological Fundamentals for Conducting Attestation of Civil and Municipal Servants. The contribution by Deputy Head of Human Resources Department of Novgorod Oblast Public Service Committee describes methodological approaches to staff attestation and discloses structure and contents of principal stages of the said event. Results of the attestation conducted in the divisions of the Oblast Administration in 2000-2001 are analysed, main problems to be solved are formulated.
 

Ulrich SONDERMANN. Competitiveness of Public Service in Germany. In the essay of Principal Administrator of the Division for International and EU Relations under German Ministry of Interior, in the field of public service, opportunities and prospects of German public institutions are discussed in terms of providing qualified human resources for public service vis-à-vis competition with private sector.  A system of measures allowing to use an effective policy including moral and material incentives for the personnel and methods of motivation by career promotion prospects is analysed.
 

Ivan LAVRESH, Mikhail TIKHOMIROV. Cooperative Solutions in Regional Target Programming. Analysis of development of regional level target programs shows that establishment of systemic connections is missing therein, while gaining approvals takes a long time. The adjustment of the program requires sufficient expenditures, while various versions of the program are virtually not considered at all. Besides, during the compilation of a regional level target program and discussion of measures included in it, a need for cooperative solutions always arises, because the implementation of the program usually requires funding from several sources. The paper submitted by Head of the Centre for Automated Systems with the Administration of Komi Republic jointly with Candidate of Technical Science, Head of the Department of IT in Administrative Bodies at Russian Academy of Civil Service offers and information technology for an automated procedure of cooperative decision-making in the course of developing target programs.
 

Larissa MAKHOVA. Resource Support for the Programs of Financial Sanitation of Enterprises. The essay by Candidate of Economic Science, Head of the Department of Economics and Finance at Novgorod Branch of Northwest Academy of Public Administration discusses a basic set of measures for guiding organisations through crisis by means of drafting feasibility studies and implementation of investment problems. Basic indicators of the economic efficiency of investment are presented. Administrative decision-making in the process of implementing investment programs is characterised. Method of inflatory correction of investment flows is described.
 

Tacis Project. Ethics in Administrative Service. A workshop featuring discussion of the experience of Germany and EU countries in the field of ethical regulation of the behaviour of public (civil and municipal) servants took place at the conference room of MREI “Dialogue”, Veliky Novgorod, in the framework of Tacis project “Regional Economic Development and Anti-crisis Strategies”. Participants of the workshop included Tacis expert Mr. Ulrich Sondermann, managers and specialists of human resource units from Novgorod and Pskov Oblast Administrations and municipalities, researchers and lawyers. Guideline for approaching the problem of ethical regulation, as well as for the structure and contents of codes of ethics for officers of public authorities and local self-government were drafted on the basis of the workshop conclusions.

[1] TOS (“Territorialnoye Obschestvennoye Samoupravleniye”) – Territorial Public/Community Self-Government

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Mikhail PRUSSAK. Working for the  Sake of Common Success.

Alexander KORSUNOV. Let us Open the New Page Together.

E.M. HENCKEL. European Union to the Regional Economic Development in Novgorod Oblast.

Nickolai PETRO. Creating Social Capital in Russia: the Novgorod Model.

Lyubov PLAKSINA. Creating the Optimal Model of Governance: Approaches and Results.

Maxim VLADIMIROV, Olga Kiselyova. Municipal Elections. Whom We Elect and Why.

Svetlana KOZLOVA. Young People and Elections: from the Culture of Electoral Wars to the Culture of Partnership.

Sergei BOLSHAKOV,  Alexey KOSTYUKOV. Assessment of the Efficiency of Human Resource Management. Methods and Indicators.

Victor CHERNOV. Social Guarantees in Municipal Service as an Important Tool of Improving the Effectiveness of Administration.

Pyotr IVANOV. On the Selection of Strategy for the Functioning of Local Self-government Body.

Sergey LEONTIEV. Introdusing Databases of the Dialogue Municipal Scientific and Educational Institution.

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