information technologies and products to the detriment of the interests and security of the states. 5. Dissemination of information harmful to the socio-political and socioeconomic systems, spiritual, moral and cultural environment of other States. This threat is caused by states, organizations, group of persons or particular persons using the information infrastructure for the dissemination of the information harmful to the socio-political and socio-economic systems, spiritual, moral and cultural environment of other States. It is manifested by the appearance and reproduction in electronic (radio and television) and other media, the Internet and other networks of information exchange of information: distorting the picture of the political and social system of a state, its foreign and domestic policy, important political and social processes in the country, spiritual, moral and cultural values of its population; promoting the ideas of terrorism, separatism and extremism; inciting inter-ethnic, inter-racial and inter-religious strife. 6. Threats to secure and stable functioning of global and national information infrastructures that are natural and/or manmade. The sources of these threats are natural disasters and other natural hazards and man-made disasters that occur suddenly or as the result of a long process that can have a large-scale devastating impact on the information resources of the state. They are manifested by the malfunctions of the information infrastructure as a result, destabilization of critical structures, public management and decisionmaking systems resulting in a direct impact on the security of the state and society. 13