Kardashova, I.B. Mechanism of ensuring national security of the Russian Federation: goals and means for its improvement.

Abstract: The modern world with its new threats to the states and their citizens calls for more attention to the security measures. How reliable and detailed is the system of national security of the Russian Federation? This article contains analysis of relevant legislation and role of various state bodies in ensuring national security, touches upon the problem of control over activities of these bodies. The author then comes to a conclusion that while currently the mechanism of ensuring state security is well-formed in the Russian Federation, our state lacks necessary program regulation mechanisms, which would allow to use systemic approach to the problem. In the absence of detailed regulation of this side of the issue, presidential, federal, regional and international security programs lack single conceptual basis and are less effective.