Some aspects of defining the essence of challenges and threats to Russia's economic security in the context of digitalization

Improving the legal regulation of the mechanism for ensuring economic security is an important permanent task. The variability of external and internal factors, the formation and development of the digital economy necessitates the timely development and implementation of a set of adequate measures to ensure the economic interests of the society, the state and its citizens. Purpose: to characterize legally established challenges and threats to Russia's economic security, to determine their essence, meaning, forms and degree of influence on the state of protected interests in the process of digitalization of economic relations. Methods: the research is based on empirical methods of analysis, comparison, description, interpretation; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic. Special scientific methods are used: legal-dogmatic and method of interpretation of legal norms. Results: the study allows us to determine the essence, meaning and role of threats and challenges to economic security, to determine the prerequisites for their occurrence and the forms existing in the digital environment, to formulate generalizing conclusions and proposals aimed at reducing the negative impact of threatening factors.