The defense Ministry has drafted a bill that, if passed, will enable the legitimate public circulation the bulk of information on the subject of national defense. The authors propose to consider the information “generated during the implementation of activities in the field of defense” and not related to state secrets, confidential and to limit its spread, equating to attorney-client or doctor-patient confidentiality.The balance between secrecy and the need to share with citizens information about the state of the country’s defense has always been one of the most pressing issues for all States. Was looking for it in different ways: some were closed almost hermetically, someone, on the contrary, published a lot, secretive narrow set of really serious topics. The choice of approach is dictated mainly by the organisation of the state machine: where solutions in the field of military construction, it was impossible to take without taking into account the position of Parliament, closely linked to public opinion, the total classification did not make sense.However, for 2000 years there is a certain consensus in which the media and public organizations are actively discussed military topics of interest to society, and the military, industry, state authorities shared relevant information. Go out including disputes industry and the military regarding the quality and cost of the arms, discussions about ways of development of those or other branches of the armed forces and the military machine in General. These discussions were especially significant is that they are regularly involved people, relevant to decision-making in the sphere of defense of the country.In recent years, the freemen increasingly minimized, without the involvement of the military establishment, and the bill is a logical development of this process. Given the nervous relations of the military Department to discuss relevant issues, especially critical is the development of events, it would be logical.The problem, however, remains. Russian media and the Russian segment of the Internet does not stop at the state border and exist in the global information field, in which Russia, as one of the leading military powers of the planet, inevitably many people are interested in, and this interest is not confined and can not be exhausted press releases.It is not known what effect he wanted to achieve, the authors of the idea, but closing almost all significant information on the armed forces of Russia will not lead to a termination of discussion on this topic. Just to discuss it now, will be primarily with reference to the foreign sources, because if do not joke you, be prepared for the fact that about you will tell others. Does not like the result.Ilya Kramnik, the expert of the Russian international Affairs Council
