Public authority and public service: reform issues relating to employees’ rotation

Introduction. The focus on examining aspects of state employees’ rotation is linked to the necessity of improving the mechanism for rotating public authority employees by eliminating deficiencies in the legal regulation of the state service resulted from the 2020 constitutional reform in the Russian Federation. Methods. The research was based on a dialectical approach. The methods of comparative law and formal logical analysis were used as the main ones. The analysis concerns the regulatory legal acts having introduced the category of “public authority in the Russian Federation”, a new administrative-territorial unit in the state structure of the Russian Federation in the form of the federal territory “Sirius”, as well as the acts regulating the procedure for passing state and municipal service, including the rotation of employees. Results. The author makes the following conclusions: 1) there are differences in the content interpretation of the “public authority” notion in the Constitution of the Russian Federation and federal legislation; 2) the legislation on the federal territory “Sirius” does not specify which local government bodies are to be established in this territory; 3) the mechanism for rotating employees is regulated with regard to civil employee (federal and constituent entities of the Russian Federation), including diplomatic staff, as well as employees of internal affairs bodies, law enforcement agencies, the penal system, the federal fire service, who are in other types of public service, but a separate federal law on other types of public service has not yet been adopted ; 4) there is no legal regulation of the rotation of military and municipal employees. Conclusion. Proposals for solving the issues raised are made.