Russia’s national security: the outside threats and mechanisms of counteracting them

The national security of Russia is a priority sphere of social studies, with the problem of studying the mechanisms of counteracting the outside threats as the most urgent one. On the basis of the analysis of the existing ideas of outside threats to Russia, as described by different authors, the article classifies the notions, formed in sociology, social philosophy and political science, of the structure of the outside threats to Russia's national security and the ways to eliminate them.

national security, information security, spiritual security, the outside threats to national security, the armed forces, the North-Atlantic bloc, “cold” war