November 20, 2020, at the Lomonosov Moscow State University the all-Russian scientific conference with international participation «State policy in the context of global challenges of modernity» was held, timed to the 10th anniversary of the Department of State Policy, Faculty of Political Science, Moscow University. Within the framework of the conference, which was attended by scientists and specialists from Russia, the USA, Bulgaria and Kazakhstan, a plenary session and several section meetings devoted to the problems of modern public policy were held. This review paper presents the key materials presented in the reports and determined the course and content of the scientific and expert discussion within the section «New subjects and technologies of state policy: current practice and prospects», in which scientists, specialists and experts from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow State Regional University, Russian State University for the Humanities, National Research Tomsk University, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan), as well as University of Plovdiv Paisii Hilendarski (Plovdiv, Bulgaria). The principles of comparative studies, Case Study, content analysis, Big Data were used as methodological opticians. Within the framework of the «Incommunicado» case, the limits of the spread of this new type of communications are outlined. The conclusions emphasize that digitalization and technological transformations of the main spheres of functioning of the modern state and society are accompanied by the emergence of fundamentally new political actors claiming power resources. These processes form nonlinear effects that affect the content, functionality and structure of the activities of modern states, as well as the parameters of the functioning of national political regimes.