Integrated Arrangement of Communication in the Russian Federation: The Information and Legal Aspect

Abstract

The purpose of the publication is to analyze the statutory and regulatory enactments governing above-specified relations, their evaluation and the development of well-founded proposals for their improvement. The research methodology is based on the application of historical, logical, dialectic techniques and methods of scientific cognition, as well as the method of administrative and legal interpretation of the terms under study, which allows to define the concepts applicable in the area of information relations. Results: the article sets a number of legal and management issues arising from the collision of legal rules of legal acts governing public information relations. According to the authors, these legislative acts don’t regulate the activities of users and other persons on the Internet and don’t determine the procedure for transfer and receipt of Internet information. At the same time, attention is focused on the fact that the competent authorities in the traditional national pattern of government regulation of communications use try to affect the Internet indirectly via two interrelated areas: information (by restricting and prohibiting the distribution and transfer of particular information); personal communication (by prohibiting or restricting the activities of particular natural or legal persons on the Internet). Conclusion: public administration in the field of communications acts as a systemically important forces that can influence efficiently on the development of all industries of the national economy, as well as on increase in a living standard of the population.