PECULIARITIES OF REGULATION OF THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION UNDER THE LEGAL REGIME OF MARTIAL LAW IN UKRAINE
Authors:   Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lukianova Halyna 
Published: April 2024

We can say that the war has brought great changes to our lives. The economic, political, and most importantly, the legal spheres are no exception to the new rules and challenges of today. Since February 24, 2022 (the day of the illegal invasion), russia has been systematically violating the rules of war and committing war crimes on the territory of our country. In addition, the russian authorities are waging an active information war and using chauvinistic propaganda. Information is acquiring all the features of a weapon that can save the lives of ourselves and all our loved ones, and can bring our society closer to victory. Scientific research on the legal regulation of the right to information and access to information has always been relevant, and the introduction of the martial law regime has increased the scope for additional scientific research. Among the vast and diverse system of public legal relations, information legal relations, which are able to provide the public with access to information that is not influenced by Russian propaganda, are now becoming a priority for recognition by the international community. Information relations ensure the effectiveness of the state's functions, the realization of constitutional rights and freedoms of man and citizen, and the interaction of politics and the economy to achieve a single goal – the victory of the Ukrainian people. Only reliable and official information can unite people, civil society, a democratic state, and the law, combining the objectivity and timeliness of informing citizens by public authorities and local governments, and the completeness of information on the course of events at the domestic and international levels. In times of war, it is critical to have prompt access to reliable and up-to-date information. The object of the study is the social relations arising in the sphere of realization of the right to access to information in Ukraine under martial law.The subject matter of the study is the legal regulation of the right to access to information, the state of its provision and protection in Ukraine under martial law.The purpose of this work is to conduct a comprehensive study of the right to access to information and to examine the status of ensuring the right to access to information in Ukraine under martial law.To achieve this goal, the following tasks need to be solved: to study the legal nature, content of the right to information and its place in the organizational structure of human and civil rights and freedoms under the legal regime of martial law; to define the concept of the right to information; to analyze the constitutional and legal guarantees of the right to information under martial law; to outline the grounds and limits for exercising the right to access information and to find out the conditions under which it may be restricted under martial law; to identify the problems of realization of the right to information in Ukraine under martial law.Research methods. Having worked out the purpose and objectives in detail, the research paper uses general and special methods of scientific knowledge, the application of which allowed a comprehensive analysis of the object of research, namely: analysis and synthesis; systematic approach; formal logical method; dialectical method; historical and legal method; systemic and structural method; functional method. In the process of writing the research paper, other methods were also used in their interconnection and interdependence, which contributed to ensuring the comprehensiveness, completeness and objectivity of the research.