Акопов Григорий Леонидович

Dynamic info-communicative development of modern society is the cause of different information threats. There is such phenomenon as cyberterrorism in modern information area due to global development of Internet technologies. So-called hactivists are considered to be cyberterrorists. One of the most important strategic directions is confrontation with cyber threats and cyberterrorism in epoch of political oppositions.

This article analyses the current trend of greater citizen participation in federal and municipal management and administration by use of Internet technologies. The author describes the effect of net politics on civil society, the possibility of public control of state agencies and the attitude of major statesmen to establishing e-democracy.