Interaction of non-profit organizations and the state in the field of national security

Non-profit organizations play a significant role in modern society, they unite a huge number of citizens connected by common interests and views. Therefore, it is at least unwise to ignore their influence, including on state security issues. Within the framework of a traceable scientific discussion, the issues of non-profit organiza-tions’ participation in the process of ensuring national security are investigated. Various approaches to under-standing national security and civil society are considered. The determining the essence problem of a non-profit organization and establishing criteria for classifying non-profit organizations in order to classify them as subjects of civil society is outlined. The current economic and political situation in the world requires a change in ap-proaches to the legal status of a non-profit organization, systematization of their organizational and legal forms, functions and methods of activity. Attention is drawn to the need to form a comprehensive legal framework, in-cluding the principles’ establishment, the communication forms development for non-profit organizations, as civil society representatives, and government agencies in order to achieve the tasks set to ensure social consensus and national security. The necessity of developing a comprehensive legal definition of the concept and essence of non-profit organizations as institutions of civil society is substantiated.