Abstract

The forming of the information policy of the Russian Federation in the post-bipolar period, aimed at strengthening state regulation both within Russia and the CIS. Separately, focuses on the legal regulation of domestic and foreign Russian information policy. One of the steps was to develop appropriate conceptual approaches and doctrines concerning the implementation of internal and external information policy, and improving information security and image correction state. In order to implement information policy at different levels were created appropriate institutions such as the Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information and the Committee on Information Policy. Function of the body, which ceased to exist in 2003 were transferred to the Russian FSB and the Service of Special Communication and Information of the Federal Security Service of Russia. Performance of different conceptual measures informatization federal subjects, usually simultaneously combined with the formation of information interaction of CIS countries, in particular through the creation of automated information exchange. Foreign policy of information through greater influence on political processes of post-Soviet countries. It is worth recalling that in recent years more and more information becomes tangible influence in the Ukrainian Information space that actively tries to influence all aspects of life through non-Ukrainian and anti-Ukrainian media. Russia plans to urgently address electronic digital gap with leading countries and by strengthening its own information security. Therefore, the emphasis shifted to prevent countermeasures strengthen Russia’s role as one of the influential centers of the multipolar world through increased technological separation of the leading countries in the world and the establishment of information weapons. However, a single supranational information space within the CIS and the realization of the idea of information superpower is not yet beyond the conceptual framework.