Abstract: The author considers the methods of network attacks on a computer system detecting and reveals their advantages and drawbacks. The development of new methods and means of protection of computing systems from network attacks is urgent. The author considers the possibility of using artificial neural networks for traffic analysis. The author offers the neural network model of the incoming traffic filtration. The research is aimed at the creation of an adaptive neural network system serving as a cyber-attacks detection complex helping to take the peculiarities of the network traffic into consideration. To design the artificial neural network the author applies the Neural Network Toolbox pack from MATLAB 8.6 (R2015b). The author develops and offers the method of analysis of incoming traffic on the base of a three-layered neural network. The results of its teaching and testing demonstrate the possibility of its successful application for network cyber-attacks detection. The best results can be acquired in computing systems using the limited software suite allowing forming the traits of normal behavior for attacks detection more effectively. 

Keywords: computer network, network traffic, intrusion detection, error back propagation, multilayer perceptron, artificial neural network, classification, attacks detection, supervised learning, anomaly detection

Abstract: The author analyzes the legal and political aspects of creation of the Federal service of National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation as a factor of counteraction to hybrid threats to Russia’s security. Special attention is paid to the non-classical methods and ways of influence on Russia’s national security. The author analyzes the genesis of G. Sharp’s concept of non-violent political struggle and its role in the contemporary political crises – “color revolutions”. The author studies the structure of “color revolutions”, the peculiarities of using “soft power” in the attempts to destabilize the competitive political regimes. The paper studies the Russian conceptual methods of hybrid wars prevention. The research methodology is based on the multidisciplinary approach combining the analysis of legal and political aspects of the research subject. The author applies general scientific and specific research methods. The novelty of the study consists in the multidisciplinary approach combining the legal and political analysis of the topic in question helping to avoid the cognitive scantiness of a narrow specialization. The proposed analysis is one of the first attempts at understanding the creation of National Guard in Russia. The author concludes that the main purpose of its creation is the state’s will to counteract hybrid attacks on the political system of Russia, including the so-called “color revolutions”. 

Keywords: Extremism, Mass riots, Destabilization, Soft power, National guard, Hybrid wars, National security, Globalization, Constitution of Russia, Democracy

Abstract: The research subject of the article is Russia’s information policy; the research object is its psychological component within the structure of Russia’s information security. The author formulates and solves the following research tasks: to analyze the official documents related to information security of the state; to consider the developments in the sphere of Russia’s foreign policy from the position of psychological resources application. The research methodology contains the system approach allowing the author to assess the dynamics of the psychological component’s impact on the system of Russia’s information security. The historical and comparative method, analysis, synthesis, and the logical method help to study the subject field as a complex of all processes, phenomena, and tendencies in the light of their peculiarities and specifics. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the analysis of the most important developments of Russia’s foreign policy since the early 2000s from the position of use of psychological resources, and in the assessment of Russia’s contemporary information policy. The author’s conclusions about the possibilities of the psychological component’s impact on the state’s security are significant. 

Keywords: information and communication space, national security, information security, threats, psychological component, information war, manipulation, misinformation, Mass Media, information campaign

Abstract: The research subject is the legal grounds and the procedure of application of government coercive measures using armed forces for the purpose of the country’s territorial integrity provision, the case of the legislation of Ukraine and the Russian Federation. The author studies the constitutional and legal models of armed protection of the state territory from internal threats for the purpose of differentiating legal regulation of forms, means, and methods of activities of armed forces determined by the peculiarities of national legal systems taking into account the states’ obligations in the sphere of international humanitarian law. The author applies the following research methods: analysis, synthesis, the concrete historical, system-structural, formal-logical, theoretical and prognostic methods, and the legal provisions interpreting. The scientific novelty of the study is conditioned by its contribution to the development of the theory of law of armed conflicts and the science of constitutional law. The author concludes that the actions of the illegitimate Kyiv regime, whose actual authority applied only within the bounds of Kyiv, were aimed at the protection of the regime itself and its legitimization in the southeast regions of Ukraine via enforcement. Unlike the Ukrainian conflict, the actions of Russian authorities in the Russian territorial subject – the Chechen Republic – were aimed at the preservation of territorial integrity of the Russian state with due regard to the right to self-determination. 

Keywords: territorial integrity provision, legitimization of power via enforcement, separatism, coup, legality, anti-terrorist operation, illegal armed groups, terrorists, direct action of the Constitution, constitutional prohibitions

Abstract: The research object is soft power of the Republic of Poland. The research subject includes the peculiarities and the scope of Poland’s soft power, and its conceptual essence. The author considers the theoretical grounds of “soft” influence, and the main definitions and contradictions within this discourse. The author considers the projection of soft power in the light of the traditions of relations of Poland with its eastern neighbours. The author carries out the brief analysis of the current balance of power in this region and the concepts of mutual relations with the eastern neighbours. The author applies the general logical methods and the methods of the international relations science, such as the functional and the historical. The author analyzes the scope of soft power of the Republic of Poland, studies the censuses results in the countries in question, and defines the spheres where Warsaw had achieved significant success in the promotion of its image. The paper considers the issue about the necessity to carry out this type of policy as the sole approach to the implementation of the eastern vector of Poland’s foreign policy. The author concludes that in the recent 25 years the Republic of Poland has achieved significant results in “soft” policy application. The author proves that the “soft impact” of Warsaw is based on the policy of historical impact, and is considered in the context of Poland’s obligation to disseminate democratic values and European ideology. The author notes that the EU membership is an important vector defining the active policy of Poland aimed at its image promotion in the eastern direction. 

Keywords: Eastern Europe, Union of Poles, cultural diplomacy, Eastern Partnership, Poland, soft power, eastern policy, Mickiewicz, polish institute, belsat