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Legal overviews
11 March 2016
Overview of tax events for February 2016
The Russian President has signed a law to ratify the Russian-Chinese intergovernmental agreement to avoid double taxation and prevent profit tax evasion.
11 March 2016
Overview of the main legislative amendments: September – December 2015
According to Federal Law No. 116-FZ dated 5 May 2014 «On amending certain items of Russian legislation», so-called ‘agency labour’ is banned starting from 1 January 2016. In connection with the above ban becoming eff...
Alerts
10 March 2016
Compensation of court costs: explanations of the Russian Supreme Court
Law firm Pepeliaev Group advises that Resolution No. 1 of the Plenum of the Russian Supreme Court dated 21 January 2016 “On certain aspects of applying legislation on the compensation of costs, connected with a case being considered&r...
Alerts
01 March 2016
Extending the term of the federal industrial agreement for the coal sector to 31 december 2018
The industry agreement was adopted at federal level for Russia's coal industry for 2013 to 2016 (the “Agreement”). The Agreement sets additional obligations and automatically extends to companies in Russia's coal industry. On 26...
Alerts
01 March 2016
New requirements for mandatory disclosure of information by professional participants in the securities market
Law firm Pepeliaev Group advises that, on 13 February 2016, the Bank of Russia published a Directive determining the types of information that must be compulsorily published on the official website of a professional participant, and the tim...
18 February 2016
Pepeliaev Group presents the TerraLex Cross-Border Guide to Copyright 2016, a global directory of international copyright
Pepeliaev Group announces the publication of TerraLex Cross-Border Guide to Copyright 2016, a global directory of international copyright and the result of leading experts' work, who represent TerraLex firms. 
Alerts
11 February 2016
"Thin" capitalisation (under-capitalisation): new rules
Pepeliaev Group advises that on 29 January 2016 the State Duma adopted a federal law  which significantly changes the rules for taxing interest on debt obligations to related parties and/or on debt obligations raised with such par...
Alerts
09 February 2016
The Government has approved three new priority development areas (PDA)
Pepeliaev Group advises that on 28 January 2016 the Russian Government adopted a resolution to establish first priority development areas (PDAs) in monotowns in Russia and a new priority development area in the Far East.
Legal overviews
05 February 2016
Overview of tax events for January 2016
The Russian President has signed two acts to establish a unified administrator of public payments. The Russian Federal Tax Service (FTS) will be vested with: (1) the powers of social funds responsible for collecting insuranc...