The paper summarizes the basic international principles of legislative regulation of the media and the settlement of regulatory relations in the field of information on the basis of a comprehensive theoretical and methodological analysis of the international legislation concerning human rights and freedoms in the sphere of information and the settlement information relations, principles and mechanisms of regulation and control of resources mass communication. International legal acts in the field of information: the Convention of United Nations, resolutions and recommendations of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembleia and declarations, resolutions and recommendations of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe more influence on the formation and development of the global information society. Only the Council of Europe, of which Ukraine is a member, adopted more than one hundred legal documents relating to the management of information relations, human rights and freedoms in the information sphere. Ukraine’s membership in public international organizations (UN, Council of Europe) confirms its status as an integral part of the European and global media space, and commits to implement into national law the provisions of international agreements and related legislation. At the same time, taking international experience and standards should take into account national specifics, in particular: the conditions of post-totalitarian environment of functioning of mass media, the mentality of Ukrainian society and the authorities, and other features of adaptation of international law to domestic realities.