Informational and constitutional framework for ensuring the accuracy of environmental information disclosure

Institute of state and law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Information Law and International Information Security Sector, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation

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Abstract

This article is dedicated to the study of the issue of ensuring the accuracy of environmental information disclosure and its informational and constitutional framework. Compliance with the obligatory transparency of environmental information, as well as its accuracy, the need for and reality of observance of informational and constitutional foundations for enforcement of the rights of citizens is the subject of heated discussions. The article makes an emphasis on the nonexistence of a definition for the term “accuracy of information” in the current Russian legislation. Due to the tightening of responsibility for the dissemination of fake information on the Internet, the problem of the definition of “the accuracy of environmental information” takes on special significance. The author calls attention to the facts of untimely disclosure of information about a number of environmental disasters and to the need for improvement of information and legal mechanisms.