Принципи адміністративно-правового регулювання діяльності засобів масової інформації в інтересах забезпечення національної безпеки України

The article is devoted to the study of the system of principles of administrative and legal regulation of mass media activities in the interests of ensuring national security of Ukraine. Administrative and legal regulation of mass media activities in the interests of ensuring national security of Ukraine is an organizational, managerial, executive and regulatory activity carried out by executive authorities and their officials aimed at regulating public relations in the media sphere with a view to countering information challenges and threats to Ukraine’s national interests. Administrative and legal regulation of mass media activities in the interests of ensuring the national security of Ukraine is based on a system of principles consisting of the principle of legality, the principle of proportionality, the principle of transparency, the principle of pluralism, the principle of priority of national security interests, the principle of respect for human rights and freedoms, the principle of adaptability and the principle of legal responsibility. The principles of administrative and legal regulation of the media in the interests of ensuring the national security of Ukraine are the main guiding ideas that determine the state’s approach to legal regulation of the media sphere in order to counteract information challenges and threats to the national interests of Ukraine. The principles outlined in this article are not exhaustive, but they reflect the peculiarities of administrative and legal regulation of media activities in Ukraine to the fullest extent possible and are aimed primarily at ensuring Ukraine’s national security in the context of modern information challenges and threats. Administrative and legal regulation of the media is implemented through legal provisions based on the principles presented and reflecting them in their structure. The analyzed principles are inextricably interconnected, each of them complements and enhances the effect of the others, forming a single system of administrative and legal regulation of media activities in the interests of ensuring the national security of Ukraine, and violation of any one principle usually leads to violation of the others.