No 1 (2015)

The article is devoted to the improvement of public space and the development of road transport infrastructure in Moscow. From 1992 onwards, these activities are aimed at the transfer of housing-communal areas to break the functioning of and improve the quality of services provided with the mandatory security measures for social protection of the population, while maintaining stable social situation in the city.

The article deals with problems of management infrastructure of territories in definitions aspects of development territories. The article analyses different approaches to problems of management in conditions of changes some components infrastructure. In the article it is definitions the directions in decision of the problems in management infrastructure of the territories.

The authors analyze the changing of the trend of the local government development in the Moscow City, following the accession of the new city areas that formerly were the part of the Moscow Region. The paper presents an analysis of the features of the Moscow City legislation on local government, assess the position of the Moscow regional branches of political parties on the issue, and examines the possible scenarios of the process that aimed at the leveling of the scope of powers of municipal formations of various types.

The article provides detailed description of the training programme MPA (Master of Public Administration) and MBA (Master of Business Administration) from the perspective of similarities and differences, with the accented attention on features of civil service training programme MPA. In the article author analyses foreign experience in the implementation of MPA programs: the case of China, the U.S., and peculiarities of formation and development of the above program in Russia at the present stage. The problems of low demand for the MPA program are discussed in article. Author places high emphasis on necessity for greater attention to the MPA program and the need for its development and implementation in the process of training of civil servants. Author argues about the necessity the creation of a coherent system of continuous education, starting with the first higher education and completing the degree Doctor of Public Administration (DPA), including the stage of the program is an MPA.

The article analyses the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of innovation. Development and improvement of the innovation system in Russia are an integral part of the transition from catch-up to the advanced economies. Relevance of the research work is dictated by the fact that the innovative development of Russia and the promotion of innovation in it are necessary for increasing the country's competitiveness and improving position in the global market. The state is one of the elements of the innovation system. Its participation is carried out by forming a regulatory framework that will create conditions for the development of scientific and research and technical activities in the country. This article analysis federal legislation in order to study its strengths and weaknesses. Also, an attempt was made to propose a number of measures for its improvement and to address gaps.

The state financial control is aimed at targeting of a due order in the sphere of the budgetary and financial relations. These objectives can be achieved only under a condition if financial control is accurately organized and stable. In article the author focuses attention to the organizations and control of target and effective expenditure of the State Budget. The question of control of targeted budget expenditure is well worked, both from the scientific point of view, and from the point of view of control methodology in practice. However, the insufficient development of a question concerning effective use of budgetary funds both in the theory, and in practice, an integrated approach to control in general - all this does a subject of article actual, and a perspective timely for research. The purpose of this article is the analysis of development of the state financial control in the Russian Federation, and also development of measures for its improvement on the example of activity of Audit Chamber of the Russian Federation. The author made an attempt to define ways of improvement of activities of Audit Chamber of the Russian Federation for the organization and implementation of financial control of a target and effective expenditure of budgetary funds.