education of the society about ways of differentiating between objective information, disinformation, and propaganda, thus promoting critical thinking of the society and capacity to analyse, evaluate, and recognise various informative influence measures that allow targeted destruction of trust to the Republic of Latvia and its policies. 4.6. Prevention of Threats to the Economy of the Republic of Latvia The economic security is one of the most important aspects of the national security that is based on the capacity to ensure stable economic environment and sustainable development of the economy. The stability of the economic system depends on several economic environment factors (openness of the internal market and economic system, predictability of the taxation system and investment environment, size of the shadow economy, etc.), as well as provision of access to production and service resources (raw materials, energy, investments, infrastructure, workforce, etc.). Economic growth is a very important precondition for achievement of the national security goals not only in an immediate threat situation, but also in the long-term. It is very important to promote the economic development and competition, as well as establish additional access points to various new export markets. The economic environment of Latvia is characterised by several significant aspects that affect economic growth and stability. Systematically, the economic environment of the Republic of Latvia is characterised by the limited access to raw materials and production resources (including funding and energy), small internal market, as well as a direct response to economic processes on international and regional level considering the economic openness and orientation towards the external import and export markets. There are several more important factors that display the vulnerability of the economic environment of the Republic of Latvia. One of these is decreasing number of economically active inhabitants that causes workforce deficit and limits the potential of economic processes in general. The level of shadow economy remains high, thus negatively affecting the economic and investment environment, as well as further increasing the vulnerability of the domestic policy. Tax evasion is one of the characteristics that displays negative attitude of the society towards the policy carried out by the government. Changing this attitude is a long-term work that displays the relation between paid taxes and the ability of the country to invest larger amounts of money into defence, border security, road infrastructure, education, medicine, and social area. Considering the economic structure, necessity for foreign investments, as well as the situation in the most significant import and export markets of goods and services, the economic growth of