Administrative reform in the Russian Federation

Administrative changes in the period from 1991 to the present can be divided into three periods:

• the administrative changes of 1991-1999 , the political motive of which was the need for a radical restructuring of the Soviet system of state management of the economy and the formation of a new structure and system of government bodies of the Russian Federation;
• the first stage of the administrative reform, carried out in 2003-2005, which pursues the political goal of strengthening the state power in the country and is determined by the corresponding plan worked out between 2000 and 2002 ;
• the second stage of administrative reform, which began in 2006, is politically oriented towards building an efficient and compact state on the basis of a specially developed concept of administrative reform.

Stage One (2003–2005)

On July 23, 2003, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed a decree on administrative reform ^[1] , the necessity of which he spoke in his annual message to the Federal Assembly .

The first stage, developed by the group of Dmitry Kozak, consisted in the division of powers between the various nodes of the bureaucratic network.

The second stage (2006-2010)

On October 25, 2005, the government of the Russian Federation approved the concept of administrative reform in the Russian Federation in 2006–2010 ^[2]

• The structure of the federal executive bodies of Russia (2000—2008)

Official website of administrative reform in the Russian Federation