Factors and directions of information security policy in Russia

The transformational processes taking place in society have now strengthened the role of information in ensuring the functioning of the state and put information security as one of the key objectives of national policy. Geopolitical aspects of information confrontation have entered the stage of cognitive warfare, in which the information impact is primarily aimed at destabilising socio-political and economic processes. The emergence and dissemination of inaccurate information of public importance, commonly referred to as fake news, plays a significant role in compromising information security within information space of Russia. Although information security policy documents aim to prevent the dissemination of false information, the number of fake news and their prevalence are increasing. The aim of the study is to systematise the factors and directions of information security policy in Russia and to determine the significance of fake news. The article analyses the legal provisions of the policy for ensuring information security in Russia. It systematises the main directions of its implementation and provides a secondary analysis of the results of the study on the spread of fake news in information space of Russia. The proposed factors have been systematised to enable the determination of conditions for the formation and implementation of an effective information security policy. This policy aims to counteract destructive information influence on citizens.