The processes of transition to democracy that post-Soviet countries underwent in the early 1990s predetermined different directions for their further development. The author presents and proves the hypothesis that in the context of post-Soviet civil society, judicial transparency arose as a response to a social demand at a certain historical moment of crisis of public authority. The idea of transparency in post-Soviet countries appeared only at a certain level of development of political institutions and public law, pointing out the democratic transition of power. At the same time, its emergence established information asymmetry and the poor quality of state institutions of power.The need to ensure the transparency of judicial activity, in addition to the natural process of the democratic transition of power, is also driven in post-Soviet countries by two important factors. The first is that in the modern world, the judiciary is increasingly becoming involved in the process of law-making, which requires the transformation of existing ideas about the system of checks and balances. The second is related to a global tendency in the fight against corruption, which has been a key problem for the countries of this region for many years. Although it has become the de facto rule for developed democracies, transparency affects the development of the legal culture of populations in transitional democracies differently. It performs various functions, including educational, preventive, stimulating, communicative, protective, and others.The article pays special attention to the unique forms of communication between courts and the public that have arisen in post-Soviet countries with an unstable political situation. In studying them, the author highlights the transformation of transparency from a factor of the development of civil society into one of its results.

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司法透明度：走向后苏联公民社会的可持续发展

后苏联国家在 1990 年代初期经历的向民主过渡的过程为它们的进一步发展预定了不同的方向。作者提出并证明了这样一个假设，即在后苏联公民社会的背景下，司法透明度是在公共权力危机的某个历史时刻对社会需求的回应。后苏联国家的透明观念只出现在政治制度和公法发展的一定水平上，指出了权力的民主过渡。同时，它的出现确立了信息不对称和国家权力机构的低质量。除了权力民主过渡的自然过程之外，还需要确保司法活动的透明度，后苏联国家也受到两个重要因素的推动。一是在现代世界，司法越来越多地参与立法过程，这需要转变现有的制衡制度观念。二是与反腐败斗争的全球趋势有关，这是多年来本地区国家面临的一个关键问题。尽管它已成为发达民主国家的事实上的规则，但透明度对转型民主国家民众法律文化的发展产生了不同的影响。它执行各种功能，包括教育、预防、刺激、交流、保护等。本文特别关注在政治局势不稳定的后苏联国家中出现的法院与公众之间独特的沟通形式。在研究它们时，作者强调了透明度从公民社会发展的一个因素转变为其结果之一。