Competition in the field of electronic commerce: legal regulation in the Russian Federation

This article is devoted to the study of the legal regulation of competition in the field of electronic commerce in the Russian Federation. The article examines the history of the emergence of the concept of "digital economy", provides various variations of this term in accordance with the opinion of scientists. The article analyzes the current state of e-commerce in the Russian Federation and its legal regulation. The topic of e-commerce is highly relevant today due to the fact that the era of digitalization has a huge impact on all spheres of public life, changing its established principles and rules. Digitalization does not pass by entrepreneurial activity either – the development of electronic markets leads to the formation of a new type of business, which requires the creation of special legal regulations.