Abstract

The history reveals powerful informational campaigns between the Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijani Republic, the Republic of Moldova and the Transnistrian Moravskou Republic, the informational wars between Russia and Georgia during the Russian-Georgian war of 2008, and, finally, target-driven activities of the Russian Federation in the information space of independent Ukraine. In this regard, the urgent issue today is to ensure the security of information – security of state information resources, protection of vital interests of a citizen and society in the information sphere. Information security is also a component of the state national security. Analysis of scientific views on issues of information security in the post-Soviet space is the subject of scientific researches of local and foreign specialists. Available scientific works of Ukrainian, Russian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, and Moldovan scientists are divided into 5 semantic groups: a research synthesis of the social, philosophical, political and psychological aspects of information security; a study of the status of information security in the common information space of CIS member states; a study that deals with an impact of media and role of “public diplomacy” on the issue of information security; research relating to issues of information security of the Russian Federation in the modern geopolitical realities; research of Ukrainian researchers on information security and information warfare against Ukraine. The aim of the study is to analyze the main measures for ensuring information security in post-Soviet space, particularly, in the space of CIS member states. After the formation of CIS, a number of documents in the field of information security have been adopted, but the legal framework remains inadequate and requires revision. The documents did not include the issues of information and psychological impact on the population, as well as the preparation and conduction of information warfare. Thus, the most pressing issue in the field of information security has been outside the sphere of legal and regulatory framework for many years. In addition, the former Soviet Union created TLB, which also pays attention to the improvement of legislation in the sphere of information security. Each member country of CIS and CSTO has adopted a number of documents in this area.