Improvement of public administration in the program documents and projects of the “United Russia” and “Belaya Rus” political parties

The aim of the article is to identify similarities and differences in the articulation of program provisions and implementation of project practices of the largest political parties of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, “White Russia” and “United Russia”. The significance of the roles of the parties under study in the context of shaping the directions of development of public administration and civil society is revealed. The convergence of the contours of the formal organization of the party systems of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus is emphasized, provided that the specific mechanisms of political participation of citizens, peculiar to the political systems of the states, are preserved. The conclusions are drawn about the similarity of essential parallels in the attitudes postulated by both parties regarding the commitment to the path of sovereign and independent development of states with the preservation of the identity of traditional values and foundations of culture, openness to constructive cooperation with respect to friendly states, strengthening of information and technological sovereignty. The analysis of the project practices of the parties allowed us to draw conclusions about the presence of substantive similarities and differences in a number of projects aimed at communication between the state and society in order to strengthen the prerequisites for the formation of civil patriotic identity. Special attention is paid to the status of the analyzed parties in the general structure of the party systems of Russia and Belarus.