Some aspects of the legal regulation of digital platforms in the Russian Federation

In connection with the development of digital technologies, many legal relations are moving into a digital format, and the rights and obligations of subjects are acquiring new forms of implementation. The emerging digital economy is creating a fundamentally new infrastructure based on the use of digital technologies, including in traditional areas of economic and social life of society. The digital environment offers the conditions for effective communication of an almost unlimited range of users using various online services. The most important role in these processes is played by digital platforms, which have various functional orientations and allow for the interaction of many subjects, including facilitating the conclusion of contracts between them, the execution of transactions, dispute resolution, etc. In such conditions, the legal regulation of public relations related to the functioning of digital platforms becomes extremely relevant. In recent years, the Russian Federation has adopted several regulatory legal acts regulating relations in the field of various digital platforms, however, the norms contained in them are mainly of a special nature and provide rules for certain types of digital platforms (financial, investment, trade, etc.). At the same time, there is a need to create common norms and unify concepts used in the field of platform economics and in regulatory legal acts regulating relevant relations. The legal foundations of the platform economy are just beginning to take shape; the first general norms at the federal level appeared in connection with the adoption of Federal Law No. 289-FZ dated 07/31/2025 “On Certain Issues of Regulating the Platform Economy in the Russian Federation”. However, in general, the law is aimed at regulating digital platforms related to marketplaces and does not solve the general problems of legal regulation of the platform economy. This article examines the most significant legal problems that arise in the field of digital platforms and suggests the main areas of legal regulation.

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