ON THE EVE OF THE MAIDAN: UKRAINIAN ONLINE SPACE AS A COMPONENT OF POLITICAL ACTIVITY

The article deals with a number of aspects that characterized the ways of
Ukrainian society involvements into the global information space in 2012–2013. The
most important of them were the intermediate position of Ukraine in the emerging
system of European security, availability of Internet-based information and
communication technologies, growing competition on the regional and global levels
combined with the world-wide trend to increase control over the information from
World Wide Net by sovereign states.