Genesis of legal informatization in the Republic of Belarus

The announcement in 2020 of the COVID-19 pandemic raised the problems linked to the access to information and approaches to organizing informatization to an unprecedented level. In the context of full and partial quarantine measures, social distancing and other restrictive measures, subjects continue to participate in most of the usual legal relations: educational, medical, trade, services, voting, etc. Relations in the field of organizing legal informatization occupy a special place among other types of legal relations; moreover, their predetermining status is preserved when establishing legal restrictions. Considering the above, the study of the genesis of legal informatization on the example of the Republic of Belarus is of certain interest. Purpose: to carry out a historical and chronological analysis of the legal regulation of relations in the field of the formation and development of legal informatization in the Republic of Belarus. Methods: the author uses general scientific methods (system analysis, definitions, system-structural, functional and methods of argumentation theory) and special scientific methods (formal legal, comparative legal, comparative historical). Results: from the point of view of the chronology of adopting of normative legal acts on the development of the information society, the study develops the periodization of the formation and development of legal informatization in the Republic of Belarus.