DIGITAL ECONOMY
The digital economy is a future step of global economic system development due to the transformation of all human activities under the influence of information and telecommunication technologies. The level of the Internet and other innovative technologies distribution demonstrates impossibility to ignore their impact on the world economy. Therefore this article answers the questions of correlation of a digital economy development level reflected by an index of the Global index of connection, and GDP of the countries per capita. It's been revealed that there's a close connection between the specified indices that reflects a considerable role of economy sectors connected to information and telecommunication technologies in the national income formation. It's been considered such problems as the digital economy development degree in the Russian Federation, a 5-8 year national digital economy lag from world leaders. The problems and restrictions hindering the full creation of the digital economy of the Russian Federation are selected: a low level of digital technologies in educational activities distribution, the absence of infrastructure for an advance of domestic development, underestimation by the domestic companies innovative activities. Also, it's been revealed that there are perspective directions of the digital economy development in the Russian Federation among which there are innovative systems in the industry, defensive and space technologies, neurotechnologies, robotics and others.