Digital Ecosystems: How Are They Defined and Regulated in Russia?

The rapid development of digital services and platforms creates conditions for the development of complex digital ecosystems based on them. As a result, a request is formed for adequate regulation of the new phenomenon by state-legal norms. This chapter presents the results of a study aimed at identifying the peculiarities of understanding digital ecosystems in the regulatory legal acts of federal public authorities, as well as the framework for regulating their activities provided by them. The authors analyzed the concept of “digital ecosystem” in the regulatory framework of the Russian Federation functioning at the federal level. The source base was the “Consultant Plus” database. The conducted research suggests that modern Russian legislation has not formed an adequate comprehensive response (regulation) to the intensively developing practice of creating ecosystems in various sectors of the economy and social activities. The role of ecosystems is revealed rather in departmental acts, which are poorly coordinated with each other, and rather aimed at subordinate areas. The actual law is forced to catch up with the realities and phenomena emerging in the emerging practice rather than act ahead of the curve.