civil service,
civil servant,
oath,
tradition,
civil service mission,
spiritual and moral values,
ethical infrastructure of civil service
Abstract
The article examines the history of the domestic tradition of requiring civil servants to take an oath as a spiritual and semantic dominant of public service at all historical stages during its formation and operation. It also analyzes the reasons behind the challenges associated with returning the oath in the Russian Federation’s legal field of public service and suggests a «road map» of consistent organizational and legal measures to guarantee a solid conceptual and legal foundation for the institution of the oath.The results of the author’s analysis of official feedback and the legal foundation governing moral relations in the civil service system point to inconsistencies in the conceptual platform,theoretical and legal framework, failure to carry out enacted political and legal decisions or their interpretive palliatives, and ambiguity or duplication of functions of organizational structures due to incompletely constructed ethical infrastructure as a theoretical and legal frameworkof the civil service being the primarycauses of the inconsistencies.The civil service is currently faced with the difficult task of reviving traditional national values, which calls for an urgent examination of the factors impeding the restoration of the Russian legal system and the centuries-old tradition of swearing civil servants to the oath of office.
