Concept of Digital Sanctions as a New Type of Economic Sanctions in the Digital Technologies Era: Introduction of Digital Sanctions against Russia and their Consequences

DOI: 10.33917/es-2.200.2025.92-103

Recently, the world has faced new challenges in the field of international relations and economics, among which special place is given to digital sanctions. Unlike traditional economic sanctions, which are typically regulated through physical goods or financial transactions, digital sanctions actively target technology, data and internet infrastructure. The consequences of these measures affect both the economy, which loses access to key technologies, and the social sphere, where monitoring and control become more stringent. The article addresses two main research questions: can the sanctions targeting digital technologies and developments be regarded as an advanced form of economic sanctions, and what will be the economic losses for Russia? As digital transformation continues to revolutionize economies around the world, this study argues that digital sanctions have significant economic impacts on targeted countries. By analyzing the characteristics and effects of recent sanctions against Russia, the study provides insight into the changing landscape of sanctions mechanisms and diplomacy in the digital age.

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Economic Security as a Factor of Ensuring Sovereign Scientific and Technological Development and Enhancing the National Competitiveness of the Russian Federation

DOI: 10.33917/es-4.196.2024.74-81

The article examines the issues of stimulating the Russian economy through mechanism for implementing megaprojects, assesses the implementation risks and provides recommendations for providing economic security of the Russian Federation in the context of the current GDP structure.

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Extended Substantiation of the Resource Provision Volumes for Russia’s Development National Projects

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33917/es-2.176.2021.88-97

The purpose of this article is to concretize the main strategic goals formulated by the President of the Russian Federation in order to accelerate the country’s economic development in terms of creating new production capacities in priority areas of economic and social development — national projects, as well as to substantiate a methodological approach to calculating the required volume of their resource provision.

In addition to literary sources and official statistical reporting, normative and legal documents (strategies and government programs) in the field of strategic planning of the activities of the domestic defense industry branches were also used as an information base for the paper.

The article addresses the following issues: 1) ranking according to the level of capital investments efficiency in various sectors of the Russian economy is made; 2) methodological approach to forming a forecast assessment of the required volumes of capital investments and labor resources to ensure the established rates of the country’s economic development is proposed; 3) mechanism for identifying the volume of production depending on the capital investments amount is developed

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