Transparency of state financial support for civil society organizations in Russia

Abstract

The object of the study is the sphere of state financial support of civil society organizations in Russia. The subject of the study is a set of norms of Russian administrative law regulating the provision of financial support to civil society organizations by executive authorities, as well as by other persons with appropriate public powers. The purpose of the study is to determine the nature of the impact of the current administrative and legal regulation of the legal relations in question on the mechanism for implementing the principle of transparency in providing financial support to civil society organizations in Russia. The author examines in detail such aspects of the topic as the theoretical and legal foundations of the principle of transparency in the activities of public authorities; administrative and legal foundations of state financial support for civil society organizations in Russia; the procedure for holding a competition for presidential grants, as well as the conditions for participation in this competition of civil society organizations; conditions for the provision of presidential grants for the development of civil society in non-competitive all right. The main conclusions of the study are the following statements: 1. An additional guarantee of ensuring the legality of public administration, including in the sphere of providing financial support to civil society organizations, should be the legislative consolidation of the principle of transparency in the exercise of public powers. 2. The established requirements for the participants of the competition for the provision of presidential grants do not guarantee the openness of organizations receiving budgetary funds. 3. Monitoring the activities of civil society organizations within the framework of projects implemented partially or completely at the expense of presidential grants is the main form of monitoring compliance by the winners of the competition with the terms of the contract with the Operator Fund. 4. Citizens of our country do not have the opportunity to receive information about presidential grants provided by the Operator Fund in an out-of-competition manner, which violates the principle of transparency in the exercise of public powers.