The purpose of the present research is identification of existence of legal system in virtual space. This purpose is concretized by the following tasks: the analysis of existence of positive law, legal science, legal consciousness in digital measurement; disclosure of some features of law-making on the Internet; identification of separate aspects of right realization in virtual space. The methodological device of this research is based on dialectic understanding of surrounding life in which borders between real and virtual space have flexible character. At the same time use of the system approach causing existence of various methods of scientific knowledge is inevitable. It is possible to distinguish from them structurally functional, legalistic, and comparative and other methods. Authors of article recognize the known pluralism of the used categories. However in this research the terms "virtual space", "digital space", "Internet space", "cyberspace" are used as synonyms. Results of the research can find the application in the sphere of jurisprudence and legal education. Also they can be considered in law-making processes.

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The article deals with the historical and legal study of the emergence and development of privatization relations in Russia. Specifically historical experience clearly demonstrates that the optimally chosen form of ownership largely determines the stability of the state and the effectiveness of its economic policy. The authors study the issues of the beginning of the privatization processes, the stages of privatization provides an analysis of the main regulatory legal acts regulating the privatization processes in various historical periods. The objective of the presented historical and legal research is the formation of a comprehensive scientific understanding of the emergence and development of legal regulation of privatization relations in Russia in various historical periods. This objective predetermined the choice of tasks that must be solved in the research process: to determine the moment of the beginning of the privatization processes in Russia; describe the main stages of privatization in Russia; to analyze the regulatory legal acts regulating the privatization processes at various stages; and identify trends in the legal regulation of privatization processes at the present stage. As a result of the study, the authors concluded that the privatization that took place in Russia at the end of the XX and beginning of the XXI centuries was a process of redistribution of public property in the interests of private individuals.