Russian National Security Strategy

Russian Information Security Doctrine

Main article: Russian Information Security Doctrine

2021: IS first named a priority in Russia's national security strategy

In early July 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation." For the first time in this document, information security was identified as a separate priority area. In the previous version of the strategy, IS was included in the section "Science, Technology and Education."

According to Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, the allocation of the IB as a new priority for national security is caused by a more active manifestation of these threats than before. The Russian national security strategy approved in July 2021 cites such cyber threats as:

• the use of ICT to interfere in the internal affairs of Russia;
• a significant increase in the number of computer attacks on Russian information resources;
• the desire of transnational corporations to consolidate control over information resources on the Internet;
• large-scale dissemination of inaccurate information and an increase in the number of crimes committed using digital technologies.

IS first named a priority in the national security strategy of the Russian Federation

The goal of ensuring information security in the strategy is to strengthen the sovereignty of Russia in the information space, and the achievement of this security should be carried out through the implementation of state policy aimed at solving a number of thematic problems.

The document notes that the modern world is undergoing a period of "transformation" and the emergence of new centers of world economic and political development leads to the formation of new rules and principles of world order. Increasing instability in the world can, in turn, lead to attempts to resolve interstate contradictions by "finding internal and external enemies, destroying the economy, traditional values ​ ​ and ignoring fundamental human rights and freedoms."^[1]

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