Humanities & Social Sciences 8 (2016 9) 1857-1862 ~ ~ ~ УДК 346.1:004.738.5 Peculiarities of Social and Legal Regulation of Internet Relations Alexander V. Mal’ko and Alina S. Anisimova* Saratov Branch of the Institute of State and Law of the RAS 135 Chernyshevskogo Str., Saratov, 410028, Russia Received 22.01.2016, received in revised form 17.02.2016, accepted 20.06.2016 The present article studies peculiarities of legal regulation of Internet relations in regard with other social norms, which include the following: first of all, it is a new scope of law; secondly, it requires a co-regulation mechanism; thirdly, it “expands” the objective right beyond into the scope of social relations in the virtual space; fourthly, there are requirements (precepts) of international law; fifthly, it depends on the technical norms and standards of the web; sixthly, the parties it includes are specific; seventhly, the relations between users are mediated. <...> The mentioned peculiarities require the review of the currently established legal opinions, theoretical and legal values including the mechanism of legal regulation of Internet relations. <...> With the modern global informatisation, telecommunication technologies, where the Internet occupies a specific place, expand to all spheres of human life. <...> The universal multipurpose use of the Internet begins to determine the pattern of social life: in politics, dictators’ technologies of appeal are replaced with spreading information in the Internet; economics faces e-commerce, and, therefore, intellectual property problems; in cultural and social life we observe the loss of some national self-identification elements. <...> This form of relations forms more than just a new context of culture; it develops a new kind of social relations called Internet relations. <...> This term refers to the part of social relations, which develops for the satisfaction of one’s needs Alexander V. Mal’ko, Alina S. Anisimova. <...> Peculiarities of Social and Legal Regulation of Internet Relations in the Internet as a phenomenon of social life, separated due to the technical progress. <...> Moreover, the absence of approaches to theoretical legal issues applicable to technical progress, and the actual establishment of such approaches by law make a negative impact on legal regulation itself. <...> Constructed by man, this space gradually substitutes the objective reality, where it is mainly referred to as virtual reality, which <...>