Technological Sovereignty in the Digital Era of the Development of Russian Society: A Political and Legal Aspect

The article proposes the author’s interpretation of the concepts of ‘technological sovereignty’ and ‘digital sovereignty’. From the authors’ point of view, technologi cal sovereignty is a multilevel political, legal and socio-technological phenomenon that requires an interdisciplinary approach and comprehensive consideration. The content of the work traces the relationship between the digital transformation of society and the meaningful interpretation of technological sovereignty, presents and analyzes the structure of digital relations in the context of ensuring the sovereignty of the national digital space. At the same time, digital sovereignty is considered as a basic element of technological sovereignty. In addition, the authors discuss the clas sical and innovative foundations of the modern doctrine of sovereignty and security of Russian society, and propose the main directions of state policy in the field of ensuring technological sovereignty in the digital era of the development of Russian society. It is proved that the new technological structure of society will transform traditional sectoral national policies into cross-cutting strategic directions of state and legal activity, form so-called ‘cross-cutting state policies’, and also complicate the existing value-semantic and socio-normative systems. It is proved that the key direction of cross-cutting national policies will be ensuring technological sover eignty as a complex political and legal phenomenon, including both the classical foundations of sovereignty and the problems of formation and protection of critical technological, resource and energy infrastructure.