Legal doctrine of information security regulation in Russia

Ensuring information security is a complex social, legal, economic and scientific problem that is being solved at the present stage in the conditions of severe financial, material and resource restrictions, as well as time constraints and other restrictions typical for the current socio-economic situation in Russia. However the task of ensuring information security is becoming an essential element of national security and a factor for achieving strategic stability. The first Information security doctrine of the Russian Federation, approved by the President in 2000, was the state's timely response to new challenges in the information sphere. This article shows that today the Information security doctrine of the Russian Federation, adopted in 2016, is in force in Russia. It is a system of official views on ensuring the national security of the Russian Federation in the information sphere. This paper presents the scientific views on the legal doctrine; future directions for the development of legal doctrine in Russia; comparative characteristics of the definitions «information security» and «information sphere»; the analysis of Russia's national interests in the information sphere was also carried out; the classification of information security threats is presented.

doctrine of information security, information security, legal doctrine, information sphere, national interests, information security threats