OSCE ACTIVITIES AND FORMATION OF LEGAL REQUIREMENTS ON INFORMATION WARFARE AREA

Abstract

The article emphasizes that in the current situation of large-scale Russian aggression, the dimension of countering propaganda and disinformation in its various components and formats, and at the same time the ways of managerial and procedural response to the relevant processes, have become a very relevant issue in the domestic legal doctrine, since the total spread of disinformation and hate speech by the aggressor has become unprecedented over the past four years. The author emphasizes that Ukraine is a participating state of the OSCE and, accordingly, the systematic support of this structure and its bodies and officials in the context of countering Russian aggression and preventing the escalation of other conflicts in the European space remains extremely important. Among other things, Ukrainian diplomats, experts and civil society activists constantly expose the aggressor’s provocations in the field of disinformation, hate speech, racist and Nazi manifestations in the activities of the OSCE. Under these circumstances, it is impossible to ignore the documentary and doctrinal base that has developed as a result of the activities of the OSCE and its institutions in the dimension of information warfare, and, accordingly, a systematic analysis of the study of the documentary and doctrinal base of the OSCE in the dimension of information warfare is currently becoming the most sought-after issue for Ukrainian legal science, the article states. In the article, the author analyzes the specifics of the documentary and doctrinal base of the OSCE in the dimension of information warfare and the formation of relevant supranational legal standards for responding to the dissemination and dissemination of information as the context of the relevant war. To this end, the article examines the acts of the OSCE governing bodies on countering disinformation and hate speech, the dynamics of relevant standards developed under the auspices of the OSCE, and highlights their reflection in the methodological and doctrinal literature developed within the OSCE framework on a set of relevant issues. The author proves that the OSCE’s perception of threats and challenges in the field of information warfare is related both to the risks in the field of hate speech and disinformation, and in the context of artificial intelligence and modern information and communication technologies. The formation of these standards from the very beginning of the OSCE’s activities was based on the attribution of information warfare categories to the military and security sectors, while over the past decade the evolution of relevant approaches in the OSCE’s activities has slowed down significantly.