Abstract: The article is devoted to legal and organizational problems of improving activity of civil servants as a part of innovation-based development of the country under the conditions of modernization of the Russian economy. In this regard it is necessary to develop the legislation on public service. It is said that compliance to new conditions and requirements has become one of the central goals of reformation of public service today. It is noted that efficient administrative activities with personnel should be the most important principle of management. The important precondition of increase of efficiency of innovative activity in Russia is the implementation of the innovation policy by public service and officers of the executive authorities of the Russian Federation and its constituents. The list of measures which are realized according to Strategy of Innovative Development is provided. It is said that these measures involve efficient usage of the best international practices and experience in supporting innovation activities. Establishment of new structures on the basis of innovative legal relations of officers and their research is an objective goal for administrative and legal science.

Abstract: The article concerns legal and organizational problems of implementation of administrative service procedures within the public service system, the author discusses specific features of these procedures, based on which he makes conclusions on the need to improve them. Additionally, the article contains various points of view on the institution of public service and analysis of the tendencies of its development from the time of its formation till its current conditions. The author discusses the process of hiring a person into the public civil service, namely, contest access, formation of the contest commission, etc. The authort evaluates elements and parties to service contract, its form and contents, order of its conclusion.  The author also discusses attestation of civil servants. It is noted in the article, that administrative service procedures allow the citizens to implement their constitutional right to enter public service and to have careers in it. That is why it is objectively necessary to improve all of the existing judicial procedure.

Abstract: The article concerns legal and organizational fundamentals for the information guarantees of public service, the author points out some obstacles in the way of development of information technologies in the sphere of public service relations.  The author points out the directions for the improvement of service activities and legal relations in this sphere. In the article the author points out various social relations forming with the regard to the information guarantees of service activities of the public servants of various state government bodies.  The article contains descriptions of efficiency criteria for the professional activities of the public servants in government bodies. Improvement of efficiency of state service presupposes its connection with the municipal service and with institutions such as innovation state and information society. The author singles out efficiency criteria for service modernization activities. It is stated that efficiency of innovative service activities may be characterized as being regulated with the norms of law and protected by the coercive force of state effective, innovative social relations, to which public servants on one hand and relevant public formations on the other hand are parties to.