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The Innovative HR Practices of Regional Administrations: Is it a New Round of Civil Service Reform in Russia ?
Th e paper examines the innovative HR practices of regional administrations in Russia
and the inter-regional cooperation between HR departments of regional governmental
bodies; in practice the dissemination is complicated by their relations with
the federal bodies (national level) responsible for civil-service regulation.
Th e authors use the case of Russia to describe the positive experience of blended
inter-regional (horizontal) and federal-local (vertical) cooperation between HR
departments of the civil service (federal, regional, municipal) that started as a “best
practices” initiative, guided by the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Russia
(MLSP of Russia) in 2015. Several cases of such cooperation are described as examples
of positive infl uence on the civil service with pushing changes, and as a tool to
foster civil-service reform.