RUDN Journal of Political ScienceRUDN Journal of Political Science2313-14382313-1446Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)9017Media Monopolies And Political CompetitionSaulyakV EКафедра политических наук; Российский университет дружбы народов; Russian Peoples' Friendship Universitysavaev@live.ruEwa da SilvaNet ConceiçãoКафедра политических наук; Российский университет дружбы народов; Russian Peoples' Friendship Universitysasha28n@mail.ruRussian Peoples' Friendship University15042011413414509092016Copyright © 2011,2011The article assesses the impact of information TNCs on the political process and public opinion in Western countries. In the global context relationships of media giants are characterized by on the one hand, as a highly competitive, and by another - as a concerted effort to capture and regulate the information market and planting of basic ideological tenets of neoliberalism. Without advertising support socially-oriented media would disappear from media space, and freedom of information is increasingly becoming a utopia. The era of globalized information begins protecting the interests of big business and ruling circles in the West, and imposing a single world view on key problems of the contemporary world order. New information technologies, electronic media, blogs break the monopoly of information media TNCs and facilitate the development of democracy and civil society.media communicationmass mediathe USATNCмедийные коммуникацииинформационное пространствоантимонопольное законодательствоСМИСШАТНК