An overview of the international practice of working with state secrets
DOI: 10.33917/mic-2.121.2025.40-46
In this article, the author has considered in detail the existing problems in the experience of applying legislation in the field of protection of state secrets by foreign states. Information leaks leaked to the press during the period of the special military operation in Ukraine, that is, in 2022–2024, related to various elements of espionage, disclosures, leaks, illegal storage of classified information, everything that is somehow related to the processing of information constituting a state secret, have been subjected to a detailed study. Based on the typical real-life cases selected on the World Wide Web, appropriate conclusions were drawn, and in the final part, based on the observations developed, new views were proposed on the mechanisms for evaluating this information in domestic practice, which, according to the performer of the text, would allow, if not to relieve social tension in the circles of operators of classified information, then at least try to overcome some of the created redundancy. measures to protect such information, as well as to reduce possible cases of violations of its processing requirements in the future.
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