Упрощенная HTML-версия
Author : O. Melnikova
Postgraduate student, Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy, Foreign Ministry of the
Russian Federation
IN ANY COUNTRY, including Russia, the efficiency of gov-
ernment depends to a serious extent on the quality of informa-
tion support. An effective mechanism of government is
impossible to imagine without media support for all aspects of
home and foreign policy. The quantity, quality and accessibility
of information are criteria for the external assessment of a state
and indications of its status in the international community.
Modern information society and the continuously increasing so-
phistication of information and communication processes con-
front the Russian state with a wide range of tasks. Information
policy objectives relating to national security and foreign policy
include creation of a single information space in Russia and the
country's entry into the world information space; personal, pub-
lic, and state security; political stability; and efficient provision
of information for all spheres of public life and government and high-standard technological
support for such information.
Information and communication processes that emerge between the state, civil society, and the
individual can help form a positive public image for the country, its institutions, and its leaders.
Foreign Policy Concept gives the media and other providers of information the task of "delivery
to the international community of unbiased information about Russia's perspective on key in-
ternational issues, its foreign policy initiatives and efforts, processes and plans of its socioeco-
nomic development and Russia's cultural and research achievements."
Censorship and freedom of expression are issues that take up much of the agenda of the dia-
logue between China and the West. Western nongovernmental human rights organizations such
as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Reporters Without Borders are scathing
critics of China's Internet censorship. Beijing, for its part, exposes unseemly methods used by
Western media and cites compromising information about founders or sponsors of Western
media outlets and about profits brought by anti-Chinese propaganda.
media support for Russia's foreign policy presents a dual problem. On the one hand, Moscow's
foreign policy needs wide-scale domestic public support and, on the other, it needs increasing
understanding and approval from the international community. It is a strategic line of Russia to
defend the right of everyone to access objective information on developments anywhere in the
world as well as any point of view on such developments.
http://interaffairs.ru
Providing Information Support for Russia's Foreign Policy