Zaduvailo О. Disclosure of restricted information as a threat to the domestic political security

This investigation is devoted to the theoretical and methodological foundations for examining the balance between transparency and secrecy a state in issues of national security. The relevance of this investigation is to identify the best practices for ensuring national security of the state (including the contemporary military and political environment) is necessary to develop proposals for ensuring the information security balance in the areas involving national security. Based on the systematization of theoretical foundations and international experience, the role of the right to information and the right of citizens to access information in the sphere of national security is defined. The results of the research consist in clarifying, at the theoretical and practical levels, the problem of ensuring the right to information as a factor that affects the process of ensuring national security of the state.