The legal status of information of limited distribution in internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation

Introduction: the article based on the analysis of modern Russian legislation, departmental bylaws regulating the grounds and procedure for access and dissemination of computer information, legal literature, examined the problems of legal regulation of the protection of departmental information of limited access and limited distribution. The legal collision and correlated legal gap in the issue of legal regulation of the order of treatment of information of limited distribution in the bodies of internal affairs were revealed. Materials and Methods: the methodological basis of the study was a set of general scientific and private scientific methods of knowledge: dialectical, dogmatic, semantic, formal-logical, methods of analysis and synthesis. Materials of research were the norms of federal legislation of the Russian Federation, subordinate legislation, scientific literature. Results: proposals for overcoming conflicts in the law by applying a normative act of greater legal force, as well as filling the legal gap as a result of the publication of the Federal Law "On Official Secrets" were made. Discussion and Conclusions: a number of problems arising in the legal regulation of the procedure for handling information of limited distribution in the internal affairs bodies has been identified. The necessity of publishing the Federal law "On official secrecy" is substantiated.