Digitalization and development of shadow economy in Russian agriculture

Sergey Kiselev; Sanat Seitov; Valery Samsonov; Ilya Filimonov

doi:10.55186/25876740_2025_68_1_61

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DIGITALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SHADOW ECONOMY IN RUSSIAN AGRICULTURE Digitalization and development of shadow economy in Russian agriculture

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Published in INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL · Issue 1 · Pages 61–66 · Rubric: Agrarian reform and forms of managing

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55186/25876740_2025_68_1_61

Received: 21.08.2024 Accepted: 21.08.2024 Published: 15.02.2025

Authors

Sergey Kiselev

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Sanat Seitov

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Valery Samsonov

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Ilya Filimonov

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Sergey Kiselev

Academic degree: doctor of economic sciences

Science rang: professor

Lomonosov Moscow State University head of the department; leading researcher · department of agroeconomics of the faculty of economics; Eurasian Center for Food Security · Russian Federation · Moscow

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Sanat Seitov

Academic degree: candidate of economic sciences

Lomonosov Moscow State University 2nd category engineer of the department; researcher · department of agroeconomics of the faculty of economics; Eurasian Center for Food Security · Russian Federation · Moscow

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Valery Samsonov

Lomonosov Moscow State University 2nd category engineer of the laboratory · laboratory of training and research press of the faculty of economics · Russian Federation · Moscow

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Ilya Filimonov

Academic degree: candidate of economic sciences

Lomonosov Moscow State University assistant of the department · department of philosophy and methodology of economics of the faculty of economics · Russian Federation · Moscow

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ABSTRACT

In the context of digital transformation, the analysis of the development of the shadow economy in agriculture in relation to the level of digitalization is of particular importance. The aim is to identify the impact of digitalization on the scale of the shadow economy in the Russian agriculture. Modeling using panel data for 78 constituent entities of the Russian Federation makes it possible to determine the impact of digitalization on the shadow transactions of legal entities in agriculture of the Russian Federation. The article uses the level of digitalization of the local telephone network in rural areas as an indicator of digitalization, since it covers urban and rural areas combined in a regional context across Russia, in contrast to other indicators presented in statistical sources. The differentiation of regions is strongly expressed in terms of the level of digitalization, while in terms of the level of the shadow economy it is weaker. This is due to the methodology taking into account shadow transactions only among legal entities, without entities in the informal sector. In the subjects of the Central, Southern and Siberian Federal Districts, the scale of the shadow economy in agriculture tends to decrease, while the level of digitalization, on the contrary, increases. The study econometrically proves that digitalization helps reduce the scale of the shadow economy in agriculture. The fixed effects model showed the greatest reliability. All other things being equal, an increase in the level of digitalization of the local telephone network in rural areas by 1% leads to a decrease in the share of shadow transactions of legal entities in relation to the gross added value of section A of OKVED by an average of 0.3 percentage points. This connection is explained by the fact that digitalization makes some operations in the circulation of products transparent, making shadow circulation more difficult.

KEYWORDS

agriculture, digitalization, shadow transactions of legal entities, share of shadow transactions in GVA, access to the Internet, digital development programs, local telephone network

Funding

The reported study was funded by Russian Science Foundation, project number 23-28-00076 "Shadow economy in the Russian agriculture: measuring, regional differentiation and control measures".

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Kiselev S. V., Seitov S. K., Samsonov V. A., Filimonov I. V. Digitalization and development of shadow economy in Russian agriculture // INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 2026. no. 1. pp. 61-66. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55186/25876740_2025_68_1_61. (Date of access 19.09.2026).

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Sergey Kiselev, Seitov S. K., Samsonov V. A., Filimonov I. V.. "Digitalization and development of shadow economy in Russian agriculture." INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL.1 (2026): 61-66. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55186/25876740_2025_68_1_61.

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Kiselev S. V., Seitov S. K., Samsonov V. A., Filimonov I. V. (2026). Digitalization and development of shadow economy in Russian agriculture. INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL(1), 61-66. https://doi.org/10.55186/25876740_2025_68_1_61

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Sergey Kiselev, Seitov S. K., Samsonov V. A., Filimonov I. V.. "Digitalization and development of shadow economy in Russian agriculture." INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL, no. 1 (2026): 61-66. https://doi.org/10.55186/25876740_2025_68_1_61.

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