Trends in development of legal regulation of the information space

The article is devoted to the analysis of scientific concepts of the information space as one of the spheres of realization of state sovereignty. The author considers the influence of the development of information technologies on the nature of legal regulation, as well as the tendencies of globalization and sovereignization. There is a lack of theoretical development and separation of the concepts of "information environment", "information sphere", "information space" both in the science of information law and in the text of the new Doctrine of Information Security of the Russian Federation. The process of forming the institution of international information security, measures to ensure national and international legal protection of critical information infrastructures and facilities is considered. Based on the analysis of documents developed by the Group of Governmental Experts of the United Nations and the new legislative initiatives in the Russian Federation related to the national segment of the Internet and the protection of critical information infrastructure, the conclusion about the willingness of states to sovereignize the information space realized through the localization of information infrastructure on the territory of a particular state is substantiated.