Information and civil society: problem setting
In the article it is attempted to define the place and role of information in complex legal mechanism of formation and development of civil society institutions with regard to the issue of cybernetic approach. Dual sociolegal nature of the phenomenon of civil society in Russia is that, on the one hand, it grows not from below, and is formed "from above” by the will of the state that has the ability to control the development of civil society through information, perceived its institutions, on the other hand, civil society is a complex of open social system, development of which is qualitatively depends on the development of its constituent elements. Dialectical the possibility of such development provides information, which implies that share elements of the system and which cannotfully controlled through the state.