Evaluation of the process of information economy development in Russia

The article defines the main criteria of information economy and the stages of its development; analyzes the situation in information and communication sector, the process of state and municipal government bodies' informatization and the innovative potential of Russia from the perspective of transition to information economy. It has been shown that the processes of informatization are aimed at increasing the efficiency of traditional branches of the economy, while the share of educational segment and the share of companies engaged in innovative activity in the Russian economy are currently declining. Nevertheless, implementation of information technology in Russia is increasing. This allows us to conclude that Russia today is at the stage of mass introduction of information technologies in the traditional industries of industrial economy, and lack of qualitative changes in the structure of production over the past five years.