Abstract: The author considers the specifics of the influence of mass media on the process of formation of spiritual and moral values among students of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The special role of patriotic education and its interrelation with the process of formation of spiritual and moral values among police cadets is shown. Arguments are given about the importance of protecting law enforcement officers from negative information impact in a globalizing world. The object is cadets of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The subject of the article is the peculiarities of the informational and psychological impact of the media on the spiritual and moral sphere of a person's personality. The author considers in detail such important aspects of the topic under study as the ability of police officers to counteract the negative influence of the media in a modern digital society, the main areas of media influence on the personality of police officers, the ability of cadets to form a system of spiritual and moral values. The author proves the thesis that the developed spiritual and moral values of cadets are a necessary barrier to the threats of the modern globalizing world. The novelty and relevance of the research are due to the complicated socio-political situation in the world and the need for additional research that opens up new mechanisms of information and psychological impact of mass media on the spiritual and moral sphere of the individual. The researcher comes to the conclusion that in order to ensure reliable protection of police officers from the negative impact of the media, it is necessary to block hostile media-foreign agents, increase the intensity of the pedagogical impact of the educational organization system and work on leveling the negative informational and psychological impact of the media.

Abstract: This author discusses the features of the research of the sense of patriotism among the cadets of the educational organization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, conducted at the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy of the Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of the introduction of methods to supplement the content of academic disciplines in the educational process. For this purpose, the author conducted experimental work on the formation of a sense of patriotism among police cadets at the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy. The article describes the types of information elements directly introduced into the content of educational material or indirectly used during training sessions, reveals the specifics of their use for patriotic education.
The specifics of the education of patriotism in the course of teaching humanitarian academic disciplines are revealed. The description of promising areas of further research on the topic of education of patriotism is given, and recommendations for improving the system of patriotic education in a departmental university are proposed. The transformation of the content of humanitarian disciplines is described in order to form a sense of patriotism among cadets. The researcher gives the author's typology of the feeling of patriotism, actualizes the question of the need to improve the process of patriotic education in new information and political conditions. The paper managed to show the peculiarities of the formation of patriotism in educational practice, in the process of teaching academic disciplines of the humanities cycle at the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy in the educational system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.