capacity. It is necessary to carry out measures and create relevant conditions that would be able to improve the participation and involvement of the civil society in socio-political processes of the Republic of Latvia. At the same time, the society must start to feel responsible about the defence of the country and strengthening of the national security. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to improve the involvement of the society in the defence measures of the country by establishing an understanding about various risks and threats to the national security that can affect inhabitants; it is also necessary to develop knowledge and skills, so that the inhabitants would be able to respond in the case of crisis. Development of the Capacity of Strategic Communication of the Country In order to achieve more successful involvement of the society, the strategic communication between the high ranking government officials and society in general, as well as separate its groups, for example, entrepreneurs and representatives of the non-governmental sector is very important. The government must pay special attention to strategic communication with regions and municipalities, as well as the people who live in these regions. By implementing effective strategic communication, the gap between the society and country, as well as the separation of the regions of the Republic of Latvia and Riga, the centre for national level decision making, would be decreased. Implementation of the Society Integration Policy It is necessary to improve coordination between the responsible institutions that are implementing the society integration policy. Functions of the institutions regarding integration must be defined more precisely in order to prevent duplication of such functions. When carrying out long-term society integration policy, it must include a complex of measures for such areas as language, education, history, youth, etc. that would allow to preemptively prevent the threats to the national security of the Republic of Latvia caused by the national and informative policy carried out by the Russian Federation. The society integration must be implemented together with an effective national language policy, thus ensuring that all inhabitants can communicate in the Latvian language, as well as successfully understand the information provided by the government using public and other