Transformation of «Sovereignty» and «Security» Concepts and the Idea of State Unity

The paper is devoted to the study of issues of state sovereignty in the modern discourse covering the problems of security and national identity. Reconsideration of the basic provisions of public law is preconditioned by the development of new digital technologies and the formation, along with the territory and the population assigned to the territory, of a virtual space that expands with the development of new information technologies and their transformation not just into publicly available, but into permanent and necessary means of social interaction. The paper discusses the concepts of «sovereignty» and «security» based on the idea of state unity, the concept that is necessary for a multinational state. The Russian state formed as a result of amalgamation of European and Asian ideologies has become a carrier of a specific DNA code. The desire to achieve a balance between the individual, private and social, and public is what is necessary for modern Russian society that is now socio and economic pressure. Achieving this balance is possible only by means of taking into account modern conditions of scientific and technological development and simultaneous appeals to historical memory, to the ideas that are psychologically close to the Russian people. The author believes that transformation of the concepts of «sovereignty» and «security» means expanding their content, since security and state unity become integral features of state sovereignty along with the independence of the state and state power. At the same time, within the framework of security, information security is becoming the most relevant, since information and information technologies, which many states are trying to reach (natural resources are only means for improving new technologies), have become a determining factor in the development of the state.

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