Philosophical-Legal Analysis of Ensuring the Right to Information in Ukraine
Abstract
The purpose of the article is the analysis of philosophic and legal components of the process of enforcement of the natural right of citizen for information in Ukraine. The special attention should be paid to research of principles of national legislation, regulating legal framework of obtainment, distribution and storage of information. In early years of Ukrainian informational society philosophic and legal comprehension of the nature of individual’s right for information happened to be out of scientists’ attention zone to a certain extent. The methodology of application of scientific tools of research of citizen’s right for information has been performed on the ground of systematic and structural analysis as far as effective informational and legal cooperation between authorities and society is a paradigm of interdisciplinary type. Besides, the author has used the method of legal negation to comprehend principles of performance of state informational policy, dogmatic method – for analysis of legislation, regulating informational sphere of Ukraine, and methods of induction, abstracting and formal logic – for generalization of suggestions and conclusions in terms of improvement of the national rules and regulations that define informational relationship between authorities and society. The scientific novelty is that, on the ground of historico-legal and rather-legal methods, the author has defined the current state of problems related to enforcement of citizen’s right for information in Ukraine, that definitely need new scientific recommendations in terms of choice of directions and priorities in improvement of legal rulemaking for informational activities, specification of terms of informational and legal relationships. The major results of this research are directed to development of new philosophic and legal approaches to enforcement of right for information in accordance with EU informational legislation in power. Conclusions. Having analyzed the most common philosophic and legal conceptions of the enforcement of right for information, the author has justified the necessity to improve the legislation in informational sphere of Ukraine in accordance with European approaches, namely: harsher punishment for acting officials of authority bodies for violation of the procedure of provision of requested information, response period, attempts to conceal public information etc. The author has also presented recommendations for prevention of such actions by representatives of government bodies that possess the necessary information. In the meantime, from the point of view of modern model of communication between authorities and society, the author offers philosophic and legal principles and grounds for possible limitation of the right for access to information, that must be ultimately reasoned in Ukrainian legislation and must to be related to: threat to national security, informational security of a citizen, violation of privacy and personal data security.
Keywords: citizen; informational society; communication; right for information; philosophy of the law; European legislation.
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