The concept, principles and types of public control of public procurement in Russia: the legal analysis

Introduction: the authors analyze some controversial scientific initiatives in relation to the concept and principles of public control, whose relevance is justified bythe need to improve the implementation of the authorities’ public interests. The paper also discusses the various types of social control, distributed according to the criteria. The purpose of the work is to develop proposals for the development of the legal regulation of public control in the field of public procurement. Methods: the main method of research is the dialectical method of cognition. The paper also uses the system-functional, historical and logical methods. Results: supplementing the theoretical research on public control with the scientific conclusions concerning its concept, principles, and types. Conclusions: according to the results of the study, it is proposed to supplement the term “public control” with the goals of monitoring and the principle of retribution of citizens’ participation in the activities of public control of the individual authorities. The classifications of general and special types of control developed bythe authors will allow expanding the existing theoretical and methodological base of the research object.