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The importance of ensuring Russia’s national interests in forming an information space is based on the contemporary peculiarities of forming the information society. This study is devoted to the analysis of international legal acts regulating integration processes in the former Soviet Union in the course of forming a single information space in the transition from an information society to knowledge one.Authors provide an analysis of conditions in which the conceptual basis of forming the single information space the framework of international legal cooperation in the former Soviet Union in the field of information and informatization is grounded. The study includes an analysis of official data on CIS and EEU members’ cooperation as well as studies of Russian authors. Authors highlighted the importance of information communication technologies as instruments of transitioning from an information society to a knowledge society and emphasized the essential role of international legal cooperation experience for forming and providing access to the information space of knowledge in Russia.