Instruments for Carrying out Manipulations around the Content and Directions of the National Gender Policy

Gender policy, i.e. the policy for ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men, is recognized as one of the priorities of the Ukrainian Government activity, which is confirmed by practical steps taken by the Ukrainian state. At the same time, in Ukraine, the manipulations around gender policy, gender terminology, legislative initiatives on protecting women’s rights and counter violence, are becoming more active and spreading. They deform the content and directions of the state activities, as well as the perception of the importance of gender transformations by society, which threatens the country's movement towards European integration. The article analyzes the logical tools that are used by adherents of anti-gender movements using the examples of theses voiced by the participants of the round table «Scientific and medical approaches to the problem of gender equality» held on November 9, 2018 by the Committee on Health Protection of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The article shows the fallacy of their conclusions and recommendations, by analysing the main inferences that can be used in activities to expose the manipulations of public consciousness and disseminate fake information as a type of organizational weapon of the hybrid war against Ukraine. Key words: gender policy, gender equality, anti-generational movements, logical mistakes, manipulation around gender policy, tools for hybrid warfare.

Leadership in Higher Military Educational Institutions: Models and Training Programmes

The article deals with the theoretical foundations of leadership, Ukrainian historical traditions and contemporary state of practical use and teaching of leadership in military educational institu-tions with the aim to form pro-active officer cadre, with further employment in bodies of executive power and participation in the political system of the state. Key words: top military brass, high brass, transaction leadership, transforma-tional leadership, critical approach, reforms in the defense and security sector.

Cybersecurity in the EU and Member States: Genesis and Issues of its Enhancing

The article deals with the issues of establishing cybersecurity in the EU and its member-states at the legislative level as viewed from the point of a systematic approach. The authors identified problematic aspects of improving cybersecurity quality and conditions. They analyzed the impact of the EU member states legislation on cy-bersecurity. The article as well considers the process of ICT development and pre-sents the ways of creating new challenges by means of new technologies. Key words: cybersecurity, cyber resilience, regulatory instruments, EU legislation, innovations.

Monitoring of Cybersecurity Level of Ukraine in World Ratings

The article is devoted to monitoring of the level of cybersecurity of Ukraine in world rankings. The authors’ attention was focused on analyzing the main problems of building a national cyber defense system, considering international experience. According to the authors, ensuring the cybersecurity of the country is possible only with the comprehensive and continuous use of legal and technical methods of protection not only at the national, but also at the international level. International cooperation will ensure an adequate level of cybersecurity and protect information infrastructures in modern conditions of the information society development. Key words: cybersecurity, cyberat-tacks, cyber incidents, cyberthreat, infor-mation security, cybersecurity strategy.

Some Issues of Scientific and Methodological Support of Forensic and Expert Activities in the System of the Security Service of Ukraine (Based upon Computer and Technical Research)

The article considers current issues of scientific and methodological support provided for forensic and expert activi-ties. It emphasizes the development and implementation of methodological materials for computer and technical research conducted by the SSU expert departments in the field of cybercrime investigation. Key words: forensic and expert activities, scientific and methodological support, cybercrime, investigation, computer and technical expertise.

Social and Legal Guarantees for the Security and Defense Sector Personnel in the Context of Gender Equality

In the article the nature and content of gender, gender equality are defined on the basis of scientific literature and the acting legal standards analysis, the possibility to implement legal standards of foreign states into the legislation of Uk-raine, the improvement of mechanism as for application of gender equality in Ukraine are studied. Special attention is brought to the creation of effective legal provision and the mechanism of its application in the subdivisions of security and defense sectors of Ukraine. Attention to the disputable problems as for gender equality application in the security and defense sector, in particular as for bringing up to strength special law-enforcement bodies units, airmobile forces, carrying tour of duty etc. is emphasized. Key words: gender, gender equality, legal status, servicewoman, gender policy, active duty, security and defense sector.

Dual Citizenship: Real and Potential Threats to National Security. Legal Response

The article deals with the notion of dual citizenship, its legal regulation. The main threats to the national security of Ukraine related to the phenomenon of a multiple citizenship are analyzed. The experience of foreign countries from this issue is considered and the ways of legislative regulation of dual citizenship in Ukraine are offered. Key words: citizenship of Ukraine, citizen of Ukraine, multiple citizenship, legal regulation, national security, threats to national security.

Problem Aspects of Legal Regulation of Public-Private Partnership in the Field of Critical Infrastructure Protection

This article provides systematic international experience of legal regulation of critical infrastructure protection in foreign jurisdictions. Some aspects of national critical infrastructure security systems of such as countries Germany, Spain, USA, and Denmark are described. The article determines that at national levels in different countries critical infrastructure protection is mainly regulated by national security strategies, defense strategies and other basic regulatory acts related to the functioning of critical infrastructure and its protection. The article considers aspects of legal regulation of relations in the sphere of public-private partnership and critical infrastructure protection in modern Ukraine. According to the results of the research, it has been established that in Ukraine there are documents of strategic character that regulate the implementation of public-private partnership, which should become a mutually beneficial factor that will facilitate mutual integration processes. Main directions for developing public-private partnership in the field of critical infrastructure protection in Ukraine have been suggested. Key words: public-private partnership, legal regulation, critical infrastructure, critical infrastructure protection, international experience.

Gender Legal Relations in the Security Sector of Ukraine (Information Aspect)

The article deals with the issue of gender equality assurance in the security sector of Ukraine, in particular, in the Security Service of Ukraine. The tendency to increasing the number of women on active duty as well as gender disbalance in military service have been described. Key words: gender, gender legal relations, security sector, law, military servants, gender disbalances, military service, the Security Service of Ukraine, principle of gender equality, service activity, reforming the security sector, service women, gender stereotypes.

Issues of Legal and Expert Support of Law Enforcement Activities in the Field of Cybercrime Counteraction

The article is devoted to the analysis of the problems of legal and expert support of law enforcement activities in the field of cybercrime counteraction. The article deals with the issues of criminal and legal protection of information security in the context of the implementation of inter-national treaties into the field of national legislation. The authors both analyzed legislation in the field of cybersecurity provision; the modern doctrine devoted to its interpretation and made some suggestions for its improvement. Key words: cybersecurity, cybercrime, computer crime, harmful software, special software for secretly obtaining information.