January 31, 2025

A representative of the CIS ATC took part in the Eighth International Scientific and Practical Conference on Information Law and Legal Support for Information Security “Bachilov's Readings”, which was held on January 31, 2025 at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The forum brought together scientists from more than 40 scientific and educational organizations (the Belarusian State University, the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Sociology of the Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Lomonosov Moscow State University, the O.E. Kutafin Moscow State Law University, the National Center for Legislation and Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, etc.) and practitioners from Russia and Belarus, representatives of public authorities, businesses (the Cybersecurity Department of Sberbank, the National Association of International Information Security, the Federal Chamber of Advocates of the Russian Federation, etc.) and civil society.
The conference discussed provision of national and regional digital sovereignty (new vectors of legal support); systematization of information legislation and development of information law science; legal aspects of international information security; digital code as a way to ensure technological leadership; creation of a state system for counteracting illegal acts committed with use of ICT; legal aspects of the formation of a system for counteracting terrorist use of ICT; legal consciousness in the structure of legal culture in the field of information security, etc.
The Center's representative presented a report on "Minors and young people as the most vulnerable objects of information influence of terrorist and extremist organizations", in which he drew attention to the socio-psychological characteristics of minors and young people used by terrorists in employing ICT, as well as the legal basis for counteracting it in the CIS information space.