POTENTIAL AND PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY OF RUSSIAN REGIONS
The article examines the potential and prospects for the development of the digital economy of the regions of the Russian Federation. The process of digitalization is one of the most important drivers of both economic and social development of the regions, which is the relevance of this topic. Modern digital technologies affect and actively improve most of the spheres of life: education, trade, production, and much more. As a result of the research, the main ways of development of the digital economy of the Russian Federation were studied, the level of digitalization of its subjects was determined through the prism of open sources on the basis of the new author's methodology of the Moscow School of Management «Skolkovo». The authors made a comparative analysis of the level of digitalization of various regions of Russia, as well as recommendations for the development of the digital economy of the country and its subjects.