Activities of Government Bodies and Bodies of Local Self-Government
The basic requirements for providing access to information on the activities of
government bodies and bodies of local self-government are: 1. reliability of the
granted information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local selfgovernment; 2. observance of time periods and procedures for granting
information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local selfgovernment; 3. redaction from the granted information on the activities of
government bodies and bodies of local self-government of the data pertaining to
information of restricted access; 4. creation by government bodies and bodies of
local self-government, according to the limits of their competence, of organizational,
technical and other conditions necessary for the realization of the right to access
information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local selfgovernment, as well as creation of governmental and municipal information
systems for assisting information users; 5. accounting of expenditures related to
providing access to information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of
local self-government in the budgetary financing planning of the above-specified
bodies.
Chapter 3. Granting of Information on the Activities of Government Bodies
and Bodies of Local Self-Government
Article 12. Promulgation (Publication) of Information on the Activities of
Government Bodies and Bodies of Local Self-Government
1. Promulgation (publication) of information on the activities of government
bodies and bodies of local self-government in mass media is carried out according to
the legislation of the Russian Federation on mass media, except for the cases
provided by parts 2 and 3 of the present Article. 2. If legislation of the Russian
Federation for specific types of information on the activities of government bodies
and bodies of local self-government, and, if legislation the subjects of the Russian
Federation and municipal legal acts for specific types of information on the activities
of government bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation and bodies of local selfgovernment, stipulate requirements for publication of such information, then its
publication is carried out taking into account such requirements. 3. Official
publication of laws and other normative legal acts and municipal legal acts is carried
out according to the procedure for official publication defined by the legislation of
the Russian Federation, the legislation of subjects of the Russian Federation, and
municipal legal acts.
Article 13. Information on the Activities of Government Bodies and Bodies of Local
Self-Government, Placed on the “Internet”.
1. Information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local selfgovernment, placed by the above-specified bodies on the “Internet”, depending on