Meeting of the Working Group «State-building and international activities» in the Center for Social-Conservative Politics

The Center for Social-Conservative Politics organized meeting of the Working Group «State-building and international activities» on the topic «Saving humanity: a Russian proposal». International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration Research Fellow Evgenii Diskin participated in it. During the round table, issues of protection of humanistic values of Russia, problems of understanding differences between classical liberalism of the Enlightenment era and neo-liberalism (wokeism), counteracting the spread of such ideological attitudes were considered. 

Evgenii Diskin presented the report «Information sovereignty as a means of protecting humanistic values of Russian society». He mentioned that Russia’s information sovereignty does not have a clear, generally accepted definition, which makes it difficult to fully formalize and implement in everyday practice. However, information sovereignty can be understood as the ability of a state to regulate, control and protect its own information space, including protection from external information influence, propaganda and interference.

In a broad sense, information sovereignty reflects the idea of national security in the information sphere, including protection from cyber threats, manipulation of public opinion, as well as from foreign states' interference in political and economic processes through information channels.