Abstract: The subject of this article is the process and results of examination of the corruption challenge to national security of modern Russia, which implies such development of corresponding thread in the current historical period that requires the urgent and systemic response in order to protect the Russian nation and the country it created. The central focus is the a priori quantitative assessment of the possibility of emergence and destructive manifestation of the aforementioned challenge and the expected socioeconomic damage. The content of this article is original and constructive: the author is unaware of any open to public materials that use similar method of forecasting and risk mitigation of the dangerous social processes. The developed model also outstands with the capability to consider an extensive amount of significant factors, as well as ease of digestion by the experts and decision-makers, which is important for structuring of their monitoring and management activities in accordance with the branches of the presented model.

Abstract: The subject of this research is to develop an adequate framework of categories and concepts and modern methods of system research as well as to improve the management of the national security process in general and information-psychological and industrial-environmental spheres of national security in particular. The rationale of thsi research is caused both by the imperfection of the current paradigm of national security (mostly of humanitarian descriptive nature) and the growing issue of preservation of nations and strategic stability as a result of the intensified struggle for deficit natural resources. The methodology of national security management is an interdisciplinary instrument that is based on the energy-enthropic concept and classification of real dangers, and includes such contemporary research methods as systems analysis on the basis of categoric thinking and modelling and systems synthesis of measures necessary to improve the management-by-objective of the national security. The novelty of the research is caused by the following: the author gives a definition of  national, information-psychological and industrial-environmental security, describes the subject matter and contents of relevant professional activities and chosen inderdisciplinary instrument to manage and improve the aforesaid spheres of security, and demonstrates reliability of these definitions. These definitions may be used in the university and post-graduate educational processes as well as professional activity of experts.