The article "Current Attempts to Reform the Machinery of the State in Ukraine" written by Professor Valentin Yakushik, Director of the UKMA Centre for Social and Political Research, deals with the issues of peculiarities of the present stage in the evolution of the State apparatus in Ukraine, and in particular legal regulation of the State (Civil) Service. The prevailing theoretical and practical approaches towards the administrative reform and the forms and methods of using international experience in the sphere of Civil Service reform are analysed.