The article discusses the experience of UN international methodology for assessing e-government development at federal and regional levels in Russia. United Nations procedure for e-government development measuring is widely used in the world and allows comparison of 191 countries. Focusing on international standards, the authors conducted survey of federal and regional executive authorities' web-sites. The article describes methodological approaches to web monitoring in accordance with UN methodology, web-monitoring results and recommendations to international methods' application in assessment of regional specificity of e-government and e-participation in Russia. The paper touches the limitations of international rankings and provides supply-side assessment of e-government implementation.