In the article, the authors review and systematize the activities of the Council of Europe in ensuring one of the key factors of liberal democracy – freedom of expression, which is a prerequisite for the implementation of a number of other rights and freedoms. The authors categorize the basic documents, both those that have already become classics and those adopted recently, where this phenomenon has found legal consolidation. It studies the way in which it affects the formation and development of the human right to information in Europe. Attention is drawn to the fact that, with the emergence of new ways of disseminating information, including the potential of the internet first and foremost, the accumulation of information and the Europea...