Abstract: The subject of this article is the attraction of citizens and their associations to participate in provision of national security of the Russian Federation. The author analyzes the nature of the current military threats and dangers, especially their occurrence and distribution in the observed geopolitical situation, as well as specificity of activity of the terrorist organizations in the information space. The work presents the experience of foreign countries in attraction of institutions of civil society towards participation in insurance of the information security of the country, which may be relevant in daily activities or during the electoral period. The article establishes the basic direction in participation of civil society in ensuring the information security of the Russian Federation in the information-psychological sphere, as well as expresses proposals regarding the promising fields in the work of public organizations of patriotic or other social and political orientation. The author reveals the concept, content and forms of e-democracy as the countermeasures for the information threats to the country, as well as gives characteristics to the role of public control in this regard.
 

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The subject of this research is the various forms of citizen participation in ensuring national security and defense. Based on the analysis of theoretical approaches towards determination of the forms of citizen participation in government administration, the article defines the historically substantiated and codified in the current Russian legislation main forms of citizen participation in defense of the country. Based on the characteristics of the modern military threats, the author detects the need for expansion of the forms of citizen participation in ensuring national security. The article establishes the unity of the forms of citizen participation in ensuring national security, presents their classification, as well as gives special attention to the demarcation of citizen participation that may or may not suppose inclusion into the ranks of a military organization in accordance with method of legal regulation of the corresponding public relations, legal status of citizens as the subject of legal relations and the character of mutual activity of the citizens and the authorized government bodies.
 

Abstract: The article is devoted to the legal limitation of rights and freedoms of citizens and organizations in the interests of protecting the constitutional order and ensuring the state’s defense and security. The author describes the nature of the modern military threats, demonstrates the need for citizens’ participation in ensuring the state’s defense and security in order to combine the efforts of the state, the society and the person, aimed at protecting the Russian Federation, and defines the meaning of the limitation of rights and freedoms in the interests of protecting the constitutional order and ensuring the state’s defense and security as the element of the legal status of citizens and organizations. The author analyzes the concept and the content of the limitation of rights and freedoms of citizens and organizations in the interests of protecting the constitutional order and ensuring the state’s defense and security. The author proposes the scientific approach to defining the limitation of rights and freedoms of citizens and organizations in the interests of protecting the constitutional order and ensuring the state’s defense and security as a basic element of the legal status of the person, reflecting the limitations, the conditions and the procedure of implementing rights and freedoms; on the basis of this analysis the author describes principles, requirements, forms, ways, conditions (grounds) and subject composition of the limitation of rights and freedoms of citizens and organizations. The author reveals the legal means of the limitation of rights and freedoms of citizens and organizations which are demonstrated in the form of a system according to the level of increase of their impact on the subject of limitation. 

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the legal regulation of the institution of civil participation in provision of national security within the model legislation of the CIS countries. The author explains the vectors of development of the legislation in this sphere and states the problems that are currently in the stage of its formation of the model legislation, which regulates civil participation in patriotic upbringing, provision of border security, and counteraction of terrorism and extremism. Based on the study of the modern geopolitical situation, the author demonstrates the necessity to expand the forms of civil participation in ensuring national security. Analysis is conducted on the model laws of the CIS countries that regulate the civil participation in provision of national security, as well as on the nature of modern military threats. The author gives characteristics to the institution of civil participation in provision of national security and the legal status of citizens as the constituents of legal relations on provision of national security. Recommendations are made regarding the 2016-2020 Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States plans to develop model laws on participation of civil institutions in provision of national security and the legal regulation of the activity of private military contractors.