One of the priorities in the field of national security in modern conditions, taking into account new challenges and threats, is ensuring the security of the “sphere of meanings”, which forms the socio‑humanitarian dimension of information security. Protecting individual and public consciousness from destructive informational influence is currently recognized as an important condition for ensuring personal, public, and state security. Understanding the ongoing “shifts” in the structure of information security, reflecting the recognition of the socio‑humanitarian component as an integral element, is the basis for developing a paradigm of legal regulation of the information circulation sphere. The legal outlines of the information‑psychological component of the information sphere, which are emerging today in strategic planning documents and industry legislation, reflect the approach to defining its place in the national security system, which was fixed at the doctrinal level more than two decades ago. In turn, the ongoing legal institutionalization of the information‑psychological security of the individual and society as a socio‑humanitarian component of information security requires its normative articulation. The method of axiological analysis of the socio‑humanitarian component of information security allowed the author to determine its place in the system of national interests protected by criminal law, and to substantiate the need to improve the criminal law mechanisms for its provision. The author’s conclusions about the implicit nature of the legal contours of information security, the actual recognition of it as an integrative object of criminal‑legal protection, including technological, humanitarian and social elements, are based on a discursive analysis of the criminal law based on its axiological interpretation. The socio‑humanitarian component of information security, defined in scientific legal discourse as informational‑psychological security of the individual and society, has gained the status of a legally protected good in the context of modern challenges and threats, the protection of which is ensured by a system of criminal law measures against destructive informational influence on individual and public consciousness as a form of criminal activity. Considering the criminal‑legal institutionalization of information security as an integrative object of criminal law protection, its formalization within the hierarchy of values protected in the list in Part 1 of Article 2 of the Russian Criminal Code appears important.
Ryma Kliuchko (Wed,) studied this question.