Abstract
The article is devoted to the identification and justification of the logic of organizational, structural and functional changes in the system and structure of the federal executive authorities of modern Russia in the context of political, economic and social events and the conditions in which they were carried out. Based on the analysis of the regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, literary sources, Internet resources, as well as the statements of the head of state, the illogical nature of individual reforms carried out during the administrative reform that began in 2003 is shown. The prerequisites, conditions, as well as the formal and factual reasons for the decision by the President of the Russian Federation on changes in the system and structure of federal executive bodies, on their individual tasks, functions and powers of managers are revealed. Hypotheses are formulated about the prospects for modernizing the system and structure of federal executive bodies in conjunction with the prevailing foreign policy situation, the state of the country's economy and the task of austerity in budgetary funds, including limiting spending on unnecessary transformations.