State civil service in the system of state administration of modern Russia: problems of human resources

The process of democratic rule-of-law state formation in the Russian Federation presupposes the ex-istence of an efficient administrative system. Efficiency of state civil service system is a cornerstone of state's efficiency. Performance of state power functioning is determined by the organisation of the state machine and the quality of its managing personnel. The state civil service in the Russian Federation is called upon to ensure a stable state management.