The article is dealing with issues of correlation and interaction of administrative reforms in Russia, of its national legal system with international administrative standards. These issues acquire special importance in the context of growing integration and globalization tendency. The World’s best administrative practices, with an eye to their application in Russia should necessarily be viewed in the general context of the situation that evolved as a result of historical development of our own Administrative system. The article endeavors to cast a critical look at internationally recognized state management effectiveness indicators. The flaws of the current evaluation methodology of public administration quality standards call for the need to create other such methodologies based on “second generation” indicators.The issue of harmonizing the reforms leads on to the need of establishing legal integration and a global legal environment. When applied to standards of public administration it means global administrative environment. This phenomenon has seen successful development by American specialists in the field of public administration in last decade, has been internationally recognized, and could be quite easily adopted by our own legal science, even though it might be better defined as “the environment of common principles of management”. In the author’s opinion, however all discourse of “the global administrative environment” is only possible after this term has been introduced into the international public law circulation in the overall international legal principles context. The elaboration of global (universal) international standards in the public administration domain is quite possible in the framework of the international law, while Russia has all necessary legal instruments to implement those standards in both its legal system and administrative practice.