Availability of Municipal Services as a Means of Communication of Municipal Authorities and Citizens

The article presents the issues of an increasing degree of municipal services availability for the population of the Russian Federation. The team of authors analyses in detail such categories as “municipal service”, “administrative provision”, “civil society”. This article attempts to provide the recommended practices for the improvement of degree of transparency, openness, and publicity of the mechanisms for the exercise of civil rights in the sphere of municipal services provision, which increases the number and availability of services for the population as a result. On the basis of the analysis of different theories in Russian and foreign legal science the authors demonstrate nonseparability of the local self-government bodies and civic institutions in the process of provision of services and public monitoring of their provision.