The Legal Framework for Ensuring the Technological Sovereignty of the Russian Federation: Preconditions, Current State, and Future Prospects

The study is devoted to analyzing the formation of a system of legal regulation governing relations in the sphere of the technological sovereignty of the Russian Federation as a new phenomenon in state and legal development, as well as to identifying optimal vectors for its further evolution. Accordingly, the principal substantive components of the paper include the legal nature of technological sovereignty, its objectives and underlying causes, the hierarchical system of normative legal acts in this field, atypical legal regulators (including recommendations, development programs, and standards), issues of internal systemic coherence in legal regulation, and prospective directions for improving the regulation of technological relations. Particular attention is paid to the key features of the new Federal Law on Russia’s technological policy and its correlation with related federal legislation. The study concludes that it is necessary to ensure harmonization of normative legal acts and other legal regulatory instruments; synchronization of legal regulation at the federal and regional levels; rationalization of organizational and managerial decision-making in this sphere; expansion of the use of experimental legal regimes; diversification and specification of legal regulation governing technological integration with friendly states; and examination of the most successful foreign legal practices for ensuring technological sovereignty.

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