The article examines a relatively new type of public administration acts for the Russian legal system - administrative regulations. Despite the widespread use of this type of act, its legal nature, features of the legal structure, and classification remain insufficiently studied, which determines the relevance of this study. The purpose of the study is to identify the specific characteristics of administrative regulations, allowing to classify them as a special tool for realisation of various public administration forms. Achieving this goal suggests analysis of regulatory legal acts, both Russian and foreign, as well as certain approaches to legal doctrine to determine the essence of administrative regulations, various public administration forms, and acts of public administration. Based on the analysis of theoretical and empirical data, the authors offer their definitions of acts of public administration, administrative regulations, and tools for realisation of public administration forms. In the process of research, the authors used a formal legal method that allows characterising the legal nature of administrative regulations, their role, and place in the system of acts of public administration, a comparative legal method to identify the general and the special when comparing domestic and foreign experience and general logical methods (analysis, synthesis, analogy).

This article is a continuation of a previously published article on administrative regulations as a type of public administration acts. The purpose of this article is to identify the features of administrative regulations as a source of Russian law. It investigates existing shortcomings in the development and adoption of administrative regulations and proposes possible ways of their elimination. The study uses both general scientific and special research methods: analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, comparative and formal legal methods. The conducted research allows to identify the specifics of administrative regulations as sources of Russian law, to outline the place and the role of these regulatory legal acts in the legal system of Russia. The author gives the definition of administrative regulations, reflecting their most important and essential features. The article studies such negative aspects as the practice of approving administrative regulations, which are codified departmental acts, by simple acts - orders. Also, to date, administrative regulations are not subject to regulatory impact assessment, which is also recognized as a negative phenomenon. The results of the study can contribute to improving the processes of developing and adopting administrative regulations and enhancing the level of legal technology of these regulatory legal acts.

The review analyzes the content of the textbook Rule-making process in the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, prepared by a team of authors representing not only Crimean universities that provide training in the areas 40.04.01 Jurisprudence and 38.04.04 State and municipal government, but also directly involved in the legislative process. It is emphasized that this is the third book in a series of publications based on the annual reports of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea and reports of the Legislative Assembly of the city of Sevastopol on the state of regional legislation. The authors point to a well-grounded combination of theoretical and practical foundations of rule-making activity in the constiuents of the Russian Federation under study. It is noted that the cycle of publications based on legal monitoring of the legislative activities of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea and the Legislative Assembly of the city of Sevastopol is successfully combined with a theoretical review of issues related to the preparation of draft laws. These facts make the manual a useful source not only for undergraduate students, but also for all specialists working in the field of regulatory activity.