Abstract

National security as the socio-political phenomenon comprises a set of the shades fixed by the right, accumulating an infinite set of types of damage, and also possible ideas of threats and their consequences. Ensuring national security was at all times very actual and important problem, but especially its sharpness amplified in the conditions of a transition period, in connection with reforming of all system of the public relations in Russia in recent years, the tightened system crisis which has captured all parties of public life, social differentiation of society, a negative demographic situation. The specifics of the modern political process caused by withdrawal pains of all system of developed communications and the relations, dynamism and unstable character of the political phenomena, the political modernization getting into all spheres of life of the Russian society, its tranzitornost and unpredictable consequences of the developed globalization, in many respects defines character and ways of ensuring national security. Ensuring national security of the Russian Federation includes a package of measures of the social and economic, political, diplomatic, legal character, the national interests directed on protection, the relevant activities undertaken by the state, its bodies and officials, and also the actions which are carried out by citizens and public associations on protection of the vital interests, as component of national interests. These measures, actions and actions have to carry, both preventive, and creative character. However, ensuring national security isn’t limited to function of protection and not reduced to it, and is closely connected, combined with idea of progressive development. In turn, progressive development is development democratic, on the one hand, and steady – with another therefore the policy of national security is closely connected with strategy of sustainable democratic development, is its integral part and at the same time a condition of its realization. The problem of reliability of ensuring national security of the state can be reached in the presence of effective coordination of actions of the state and public structures directed on identification, the prevention and suppression of the factors posing internal and external threats, calls of safety of the personality, to society and the state.