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In article author represents a wide range of unfair competition acts initiated by producers and sellers and addressed to competitors and consumers. Unfair competition practice has a long history and became widespread during the period of classic economic theory domination when traders has been given maximum rights in the conditions of free competition. This fact led states to necessity of regulation and prevention of unfair competition practice. First international law aimed to combat unfair competition was Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property adopted in1883. Subsequently these rules were included to the charter of WTO and World International Property Organization. The most widespread forms of misleading such as discrediting competitors, violation of trade secrets, “free riding”, comparative and nuisance advertising, exploitation of fear, undue psychological pressure are represented in the article. Also corruption characterized as a main obstacle to development of fair competition in the world. Today in legal practice all possible acts of unfair competition are represented so that law is developed to combat it. On international level effective law system is developed as a complex of criminal, tax, employment, arbitration and contract branches of law. In conclusion, the author appoints that global economy has a trend enforced to develop unified global law system focused on combating unfair competition practice in international trade.

In the article, the authors set a goal to analyze the prospects and problems of the formation of Industry 4.0 in Russia. The authors emphasize that the fourth industrial revolution completely changes not only the production processes and economic life of a person, but completely changes his view of the world, moving it into digital reality. Industry 4.0 is the production side of the Internet of Things, which is identically oriented towards consumers, where absolutely all household items are connected to the Internet. The emergence of Industry 4.0 is characterized by the growth of integrative interaction of enterprises both horizontally and vertically, flexibility and individualization of products and technologies, growth of labor productivity, new character of accumulation of human capital, growth of threats to cyber security. The success of the formation of Industry 4.0 is possible with the active state support of innovation in such areas as: creation of infrastructure, training and development of digital culture, ensuring cyber-security, promotion and financing of new domestic developments, assistance in the development of digital platforms and the industrial Internet.