Media and Information Security in the EAEU

For citation: Vihrova O.Ju. (2020) SMI i informacionnaja bezopasnost' EAJeS [Media and Information Security in the EAEU]. Mediaskop 1. Available at: http://www.mediascope.ru/2613

DOI: 10.30547/mediascope.1.2020.7

@ Olga Ju. Vihrova

PhD in Philology, Coordinator of Educational and Research Projects with CIS Countries at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), financialliteracymsu@gmail.com

Abstract

Mass media, being the main tool of information support of integration processes of the Eurasian Economic Union, have a significant impact both on strengthening of geopolitical status of the young regional union on the world stage, and on ensuring the internal stability of the Union, supported by the civil population of the member states.

In view of the fact that in the new political reality, developed after 2014, information confrontation in international realm is becoming more acute, and the information space of the EAEU is characterized by such phenomena as information vacuum on the EAEU subject in the discourse of national socio-political news media and information apathy of mass audience to the relevant topics, an urgent need has emerged to find effective methods and incentives aimed at revitalizing of the media activity of the member states to cover newsbreaks, appearing within the Eurasian economic integration.

Since the harmonization of legislation in order to form a unified information policy requires a significant amount of time and labour, at the initial stage it can be developed by a large number of engaged and formally independent, but functionally interrelated, entities and institutions (states, the EEC, multinational media institutions, media industry enterprises, national mass media, etc.), operating simultaneously on several functional arenas and at several geographical scales in order to solve the common task to ensure the information security of the integration union.

Keywords: EAEU, Eurasian Economic Union, harmonization of media policy, EAEU`s information security, convergence of media systems.

Notes

Doklad General'nogo sekretarja General'noj Assamblei OON 11 avgusta 2017 g. S. 4. [Report of General Secretary of the UN General Assembly from August 11, 2017, p. 4]. Available at: https://undocs.org/pdf?symbol=ru/A/72/315

Doktrina informacionnoj bezopasnosti Rossijskoj Federacii [Information Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation]. Available at: https://rg.ru/2016/12/06/doktrina-infobezobasnost-site-dok.html

Koncepcija informacionnoj bezopasnosti Kyrgyzskoj Respubliki na 2019‒2023 gody [Concept of Information Security of the Kyrgyz Republic for 2019‒2023]. Available at: http://cbd.minjust.gov.kg/act/view/ru-ru/13652

Men'shikov P.V. Informacionnoe protivoborstvo narastaet. Opublikovano na sajte MGIMO(U) MID RF 26.09.2017 [The Information Warfare is Surging. Published on the Web Site of MGIMO University 26.09.2017]. Available at:  https://mgimo.ru/about/news/experts/informatsionnoe-protivoborstvo-narastaet/

Obrashhenie Prezidenta Respubliki Belarus', Predsedatelja VEJeS Aleksandra Lukashenko k glavam gosudarstv-chlenov EAJeS, 1 janvarja 2020 g. [Address of the President of the Republic of Belarus, Chairman of the SEEC Alexander Lukashenko to the Heads of the EAEU Member States, January 1, 2020]. Available at: http://vch.ru/event/view.html?alias=obraschenie_prezidenta_respubliki_belarus_predsedatelya_vees_aleksandra_lukaschenko_k_glavam_gosudarstv-chlenov_eaes

O vnesenii izmenenij i dopolnenij v nekotorye zakony Respubliki Belarus' ot 17 ijulja 2018 g. №128-Z [About Modification and Additions to Some laws of the Republic of Belarus from July 17, 2018 No. 128-Z]. Available at:  http://mininform.gov.by/upload/iblock/8dc/8dca9553743c798b828f2f980aa15248.pdf

Postanovlenie Soveta bezopasnosti Respubliki Belarus' «O koncepcii informacionnoj bezopasnosti Respubliki Belarus'» [Resolution of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus ‘On the Concept of Information Security of the Republic of Belarus’]. Available at:  http://mininform.gov.by/upload/medialibrary/6f8/6f80a36dcb2aac3bcaa330cda20ae733.pdf

Zakon Respubliki Kazahstan «O nacional'noj bezopasnosti Respubliki Kazahstan (s izmenenijami i dopolnenijami po sostojaniju na 01.01.2020 g.) [Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan ‘On National Security of the Republic of Kazakhstan (with amendments and additions as of 01.01.2020)]. Available at: https://online.zakon.kz/document/?doc_id=31106860#pos=3;-155

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