61 JURISPRUDENCE (12.00.00) LAWMAKING AND LEGISLATIVE PROCESS DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14420/en.2016.2.1 Svetlana Boshno, Svetlana Vladimirovna Boshno, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, President of Consulting and Legal Protection of People Foundation, e-mail: boshno@yandex.ru. <...> Legislation is been creating in the process of lawmaking. <...> State and local authorities publish legal acts on important issues of social, economic and political life of the country. <...> The article deals with stage of lawmaking, including the introduction of the draft, its acceptance and official publication of the law. <...> According to the author, it is necessary to distinguish law-making process and the legislative process. <...> Legislating is an activity for the publication of legal acts, and the legislative process deals with publication of legislation only by representative (legislative) bodies. <...> The aspects of the technology of preparation of draft regulations. <...> Keywords: law-making, legislation, legislative process, referendum, regulation, legal advice, types of law-making, stage of legislative process, legislative initiative, adoption of law, reading of law, bill, official publication, sources of official publication. 1. <...> These terms are crucially important for the understanding of law in the civil (continental) law system. <...> The Common law system does not appear to be concerned in such distinction of terms. <...> A significant attention is devoted to the process of legal activity in the research works. <...> Such questions as the terms and conceptions, stages of the legal activity, participants of the legislative process are sufficiently developed. <...> This work aims a clarification of the special features of the process of law creation in Russia and in other countries, which follow the same model of understanding LAW AND MODERN STATES Право и современные государства Law and modern states 62 of law. <...> Lawmaking is a form of state activity, aimed at the creation of legal norms, their further improvement, amendment or repeal. <...> This is the process of creation and development of the law in force as united and internally harmonized system of rules of general effect, regulating social relations. <...> Law formation involves scientific analysis, summation of reality, working-out of views and conceptions on future legal regulation, maximal consideration of proposals and remarks of political parties, social movements, individuals and their associations, practitioners and scientists. <...> Law formation is the process of formation of political will expressed in legislative acts <...>