New vectors for development of the system of legal support of information security as one of the priorities of national security (to the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the law of the Russian Federation "On security")

The article is devoted to topical issues of development of legislation on information security in the context of ensuring the national security of the Russian Federation. The purpose of the study is to scientifically comprehend the dynamics and priority vectors of legal regulation of information security in the current conditions of digitalization and geopolitical risks. Methods: the study is carried out on the basis of a systematic approach and a complex of general scientific and special legal methods. Results: the authors justify the need to develop and adopt a special federal law in Russia, aimed at ensuring information security in the context of the destructive influence of western states on the information space in order to destabilize the geopolitical situation. The authors' attention is also focused on the development of key areas of legal support of information security for the past thirty years since the adoption of the Law of the Russian Federation «On Security». The most problematic issues requiring organizational and legal solutions to ensure information security currently include the protection of information rights and freedoms of citizens, ensuring the reliability of socially significant information and counteracting the dissemination of fake information, protecting the Russian language and culture, strengthening legal requirements to protect the confidentiality of digital data, protecting digital sovereignty, counteracting cyber-attacks and cybercrime, digital pressure of global IT-corporations and others.