Doctrinal providing of information and psychological aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine
Modern geopolitics dictates new challenges and threats to the international community, and therefore changing instruments implementing political missions of the opponent. Advocacy tools manipulation of mass consciousness is an integral part of political life. One characteristic of modern society is, according to Manuel Castells, virtualization policy. The struggle for power, annexation of spheres of influence on the geopolitical map is mainly in the information space. That information space is the main springboard of anti-competition. This is our present time. Political leaders, opponents States use a wide arsenal of information weapons to influence on international public opinion and create a favorable and positive image of its policy for gaining support both within their country and abroad. So, the article aims to determine the effectiveness of doctrinal providing advocacy of aggression in practical terms (for example, harassment of Ukraine). Summarizing the material above, it can be argued that today the world is at a new stage of development - information, and because of it, information security and policy is very important. The Russian Federation is one of the first countries in the former Soviet Union that has created a powerful information security and information confrontation system for straggling with as external threats so and internal information influences. Leaders of RF continually improving the organizational structure of government agencies and forces that ensure the national interest and lead the fight against external information and internal information threats. The directions of the state policy consider information security problems generated by the Soviet period of its history and realities of the modern world. In Ukraine, still remains immature information security system, there are only some fragments of it, not united by common goals and coordinating role of the state. Ukraine can't actually fully take into account the current internal and external threats to information security, counter information and information-psychological influence, possible use against our country information weapons and cyber attacks.