Humanitarian Policy in the Dimension of Mechanisms Ensuring Information Security of Ukraine

Abstract

Humanitarian policy is seen as an objective area of national security policy, covering a wide range of its areas, including, above all, information. It is generally accepted that the humanitarian sphere, connected with the national tendencies of Ukrainian society, has become the object of Russia’s most brutal and massive propaganda campaign to weaken Ukraine’s European prospects by using hybrid warfare tactics. It was found that the hybrid war is a combination of mostly two fronts — armed, direct military action of the Russian Federation aimed at eliminating Ukrainian statehood or capturing some of its territories, and a number of other formats — cultural, demographic, economic, political, information, etc.. Humanitarian aggression is less visible, but it has a clear goal — to eliminate our national and civic identity. Objects struck on the humanitarian front must be destroyed not physically but morally. A humanitarian blow is a blow not on objects, but on the value grounds of belonging to the ukrainian one. It is substantiated that in the aspect of problems considered in the measurement of organizational and functional mechanisms of information security of Ukraine — humanitarian policy, able through language-educational and cultural-educational aspects — as the basis of national consciousness — to act as a deterrent to information aggression. Research identifies positive steps of the state and civil society in the field of humanitarian policy, along with problematic aspects, including: lack of a state program to promote the acquisition of the state language in accordance with the Law of Ukraine «On ensuring the functioning of ukrainian language as a official language»; lack of a holistic approach to national-oriented cultural policy; there is a noticeable disconnection of the national-patriotic educational process with the educational (socio-political, historical) training of youth and the public.