Abstract: In this work the author focuses his attention on the process of international dialogue with regards to the questions of information security. The object of this research is the information policy of CIS countries on international arena. The goal of this article consists in determination of specificity of the stages of CIS countries’ work over the establishment of the normative legal and methodological base of ensuring the international information security. In order to achieve the set goal it is necessary to detect the key disputes on this issue with the Western colleagues, as well as to underline the dynamics of the notion “information security”. The scientific novelty consists in the acquired results during the course of this research pertaining to the assessment of CIS countries international policy in the information-communication sphere within the framework of the stages of its development throughout the period of 1990-2015. The analysis of the work of regional institutions from a perspective of the intergovernmental documents allowed explaining the conclusions that currently CIS states attempt to establish a complex and open system of international information security based on compliance of its participants to the universal rules that ensure security of information environment. The author presents the characteristic of CIS states information, its goals and principles in the context of three periods of its development.

Abstract: The issues of safety provision in the societies experiencing economic, social, and political reforms are still urgent nowadays. The research object of the article is extremism dynamics in the transitional societies under the conditions of globalization. The research subject includes the factors leading to extremism development. The task of the study is to detect the factors stimulating the increase of extremism and transforming its mechanisms. For this purpose the author defines the risk factors in the transitional societies and analyzes the reasons promoting extremism development under such conditions. The research methodology is based on the system approach and the comparative-historical method which allow considering the problem of religious extremism development in the CIS member-states as a set of interrelated and interdependent elements in the historical retrospective. The results of the study allow the author to conclude about the peculiarities of development of extremism in the transitional societies experiencing socio-political and economic transformations; about the impact of global processes on the evolution of extremism mechanisms; about the factors which, in terms of the lack of an adequate policy and control, can lead to the increase of threats to the national security.