This paper analyses the digital economy, digital science, and the digital criteria for measuring scientific results, as well as their importance in the fight against corruption. Dialectical methods of paired categories are used: essences and manifestations, content and form, transfer quantity to quality, unity and the struggle of opposites, etc. The term "digital economy" contains a dialectical contradiction. On the one hand, the economy demands freedom of development and tends towards liberal-market methods, avoids administrative methods. On the other hand, the transition to the digital economy is a managed process, contributing to the country's transition to the new technological order. The purpose of the article is to analyse this contradiction and emerging problems. The fight against corruption by the methods of the digital economy involves the process of embedding the digital economy in public administration and, conversely, the embedding of public administration in the digital economy. This means a cardinal, revolutionary renewal of the relationship between the government and the people. It is necessary to determine the legal status of the subjects of the digital economy, as well as the legal regime of the relations objects arising in the digital economy. A federal law should be adopted, this law should regulate. Togliatti State University is a perfect example of the scientific work of teachers and is also a leader in distance education (primarily the Institute of Law).

The subject of the research is the legal norms of the current Constitution of the Russian Federation. The work analyzes the chapters of Constitution, identifies the main shortcomings of the existing norms that do not correspond to modern reality and puts forward proposals for their change. The purpose of the study is to confirm or disprove the hypothesis that changes to the Constitution of the Russian Federation are inevitable due to the presence of defects in it that cannot be eliminated in any other way. The methodological basis of the research is a set of general scientific methods of knowledge and special scientific techniques and methods developed in law, including: logical method, comparative legal analysis, system method and formal legal analysis. The main results and scope of their application. The problems that critically affect the stable development of our society and state and its success were formulated. Among these problems are: the absence in the Constitution of the institute of parliamentary control over the executive authorities; the rise of the institution of the President of the Russian Federation over the three branches of government; the unequal status of constituent entities of the Russian Federation; the absence in the Constitution of the concepts "public property" or "national heritage". A significant part of these problems is related to the text of the current Constitution of the Russian Federation. In this regard, the author notes that the current Constitution of the Russian Federation has many defects. The author points out 20 drawbacks of the current Constitution of Russia which make the authorities imitate the principles of democracy and people's power in the actual political practice and substantiates the conclusion on the necessity of the constitutional reform. Conclusions. Revision of the Constitution of the Russian Federation is inevitable, since the Basic Law of the country is not devoid of shortcomings that require correction and legisla-tive changes.

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The relevance of the study is caused by the upcoming election of the RF President in 2024 in the context of continuing sanctions against Russia. The author analyzed, summarized, and grouped critical and analytical conclusions available in the scientific literature concerning the content of the constitutional reform of 2020 and its possible consequences. The novelty is in the systematization of numerous views on the significance of the constitutional reform of 2020 and the author’s forecast of the impact of this reform on the nature of the presidential election in 2024 and the further constitutional development of Russia. The paper aims at the analysis of the unique features of the constitutional reform of 2020. The author made the following conclusions: 1) the reform is unique in terms of legitimation methods, content, structure, and consequences; 2) the reason for the unexpected announcement of the constitutional reform is the need to stabilize power and the constitutional order by providing the current RF President with the opportunity to run for the next presidential election; 3) chapters 1 and 2 of the Constitution are not formally affected by the reform, while the amendments to chapters 3–8 actually affect the content of the first two chapters; 4) the contradictions arisen in the text of the Constitution exclude its new full-scale reform; 5) the powers of the President have been strengthened against the background of the seeming strengthening of the Parliament and the Constitutional Court; 6) a unique three-stage way of legitimizing amendments to the Constitution; 7) the coincidence of the powers of the State Council and the President in terms of determining the main directions of the state policy is a replacement solution for the political future of the current President of the Russian Federation. Despite criticism of the reform, the author concludes that the nature of the Constitution is the sovereign affair of the Russian people, who actually legalized the reform in the form of a plebiscite on the confidence of V.V. Putin. It is concluded that a new Russian constitution will soon be adopted, and the possibility of its adoption simultaneously with the presidential election campaign is not ruled out.

The article presents the report on the professorial forum 2019 "Science. Education. Regions", held on February 6 and 7, 2019 in Moscow, Russia, on the initiative of the Russian Professorial Assembly and the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.