Public control in the CIS member states: main problems and development prospects

This article is devoted to the analysis of modern problems and prospects for the development of public control in the CIS member states. The authors note that due to the aggressive expansionist policy of the collective West pursued in the last decade, the CIS has an unprecedented negative impact, which was reflected in the stagnation of the development processes of this international governmental organization (for example, in the secession of Ukraine). Nevertheless, a number of public and state-legal institutions are actively developing within the CIS. An important place in the processes of preservation and development of the CIS member states is occupied by a key institution of civil society - public control, which is developing with varying degrees of intensity in each of these CIS member states. However, within the framework of this study, a comparative legal analysis of the problems and prospects of development of this institution of civil society in key CIS member countries (the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Uzbekistan) is carried out.  A number of scientific research methods are used in the research, in particular: formal-logical; comparative-legal; historical-legal; statistical; sociological; method of analyzing specific legal situations. The authors identified and analyzed the main problems associated with the organization and functioning of the institute of public control in the CIS member states, the most typical of which are: the lack of consolidation of this institution of civil society in the constitutions of the CIS member states; the removal of a number of public authorities and types of public relations from the subject of public control; their weak material-technical base; insufficient powers; weak use of positive foreign and Soviet experience in the functioning of civil society institutions in this area; lack of specialized structures in criminal and administrative law legislation that make it possible to bring to justice persons who impede the legitimate activities of representatives of subjects of public control; low level of detail of forms, methods, principles, types of public control, depending on the areas of implementation. The paper develops and substantiates a system of measures to resolve these problems based on the cooperation of the efforts of the CIS member states within the framework of this international governmental organization.

public control, democracy, CIS, main problems, development prospects, Russian Federation, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Uzbekistan, Republic of Kyrgyzstan