Legal Problems of the Information Services Implementation in Russian Civil Law

The article analyzes the informational relations including relations associated with the provision of information, and relationships associated with the dissemination of information. Special attention is paid to the formulation of the concept of “information services” in connection with its absence in the Russian legislation. From a range of different relationships of the provision of information highlighted the criteria of a particular type of information services. In connection with active development of information technologies, special attention is paid to information services provided to the consumers of databases, mainly through information services specific database. The authors also underline the inadmissibility of inclusion of the communication services in the informational services.