Russia's transition to the status of a knowledge-oriented society and youth policy

The article highlights the problems of knowledge-oriented society development in Russia. According to the communication development policy concept ofthe Russian Federation, communication / information policy is to be viewed in terms of Russia''s transformation into a knowledge/information-oriented society. The concept identifies three priority areas and top goals which are major challenges to the process of building up a knowledge/information-oriented society, namely: (1) the development and implementation of a requisite technology base; (2) Russia''s close international cooperation in creating its strategy for a transition to a status of a knowledge/information-oriented society; (3) creating the social, economic and cultural conditions to facilitate the process of transition. The concept holds that the success of the transition towards a knowledge/ information-oriented society is dependent on the knowledge/information readiness ofthe society. The authors analyses the documentation and literature dealing with the stages of creating the concept of the state youth policy ofRFand identifies the role ofcommunication/information policy for the state youth policy as well as its newly-acquired features that evolved in response to globalization and knowledge/information- oriented society development. The author concludes that the informational localization of Russia''s younger population is accountedfor by (1) the hard factors of their lifestyle, which coupled with high regional diversity and differentiation breed a great variety of thesauri, and (2) cementing network communities, which enable their members to satisfy their informational needs independently ofthe state or social structures.