Published: 15 January 2012
The article is devoted to the search and defining the place of mass information in the political structure and political relations of the Russian society, characterised, on the one hand, by the intensiveness of democratic transformations, and on the other – inertia of mass consciousness, acute economic stratification, including other information threats, destabilizing political atmosphere in Russia. Information security, transforming as a political category and including politico-information activities, becomes an actual direction of political research.