The documents on information security in Belarus and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are interconnected, but they are completely different. Oleg Makarov, Director of the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research, told BELTA about this when commenting on the Strategy for Ensuring Information Security of the CIS Member States approved by the CIS Economic Council in Moscow and the draft Information Security Concept of the country reviewed by the Belarusian Security Council this week.
"There is an interconnection here, although the documents are completely different both in form and in representation", Oleg Makarov said. "The Belarusian document is the Information Security Concept, and in the CIS it is the Strategy for Ensuring Information Security. The emphasis is totally different. The documents use a completely different scientific approach, a different approach in terms of methodology", the Director of the Institute added.
At the same time, both documents overlap each other, he noted. "There is interconnection in the conceptual sphere, and in the fact that we use such a concept as information sovereignty", Oleg Makarov said. "Both documents deal with the protection of rights of the individual as a priority. Despite the difference in form, let’s just say that the documents are ideologically similar".