Akopdzhanova, M.O. Specific features of application of legislation on anti-corruption expertise.

Abstract: Current Russian legislation provides that anti-corruption expertise of normative legal acts and drafts of normative legal acts of state government and municipal bodies is one of the directions in the sphere of fighting corruption (Federal Law of December 25, 2008 N. 273-FZ “On Fighting Corruption”, Federal Law of July 17, 2009 N. 172-FZ “On Anti- Corruption Expertise of Normative Legal Acts and Drafts of Normative Legal Acts”). This article is devoted to the issues of holding an independent anti-corruption expertise, its specificities and recommendations for the practical application of normative legal acts regulating the procedure for this expertise. The methodological basis for the scientific article was formed by the current achievements of the theory of cognition. In the process of studies the author used general philosophical, theoretical and empiric methods (dialectics, systemic method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), traditional legal methods ( formal logic method), and methods typical for specific sociological studies (statistical, expert evaluation, etc.). The article provides analysis of the foremost important principles and aspects of application of norms of the Russian legislation on holding independent anti-corruption expertise. In the process of studies based upon the analysis of the legal practice, the author reveals existing problems in this sphere and proposes possible solutions to overcome these problems. The conclusions of the article may be of use for the state government and municipal bodies, law-enforcement bodies, as well as persons and legal entities qualified as independent experts by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

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