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Alerts
06 July 2015
Changes to the procedure for persons to be acknowledged to be qualified investors
Pepeliaev Group advises that 26 June 2015 saw the entry into force of the Bank of Russia's Instruction No. 3629- U dated 29 April 2015 'On recognising persons to be qualified investors and on the procedure for keeping a register of persons...
Alerts
03 July 2015
Interest on a monetary obligation (Article 317.1 of the Russian Civil Code)
Pepeliaev Group advises that starting from 1 June 2015 article 317.1 of the Civil Code regarding interest on a monetary obligation has come into effect 
Alerts
17 June 2015
Joining the federal radio and electronics industry agreement for 2015-2017
At the federal level, the industry agreement has been adopted which sets additional obligations and automatically extends to companies in radio and electronics industry in Russia. To refuse to join the agreement, a well-grounded refusal sho...
Articles and comments
15 June 2015
B2B: Parallel Import of Medicines: High Time or the Wrong Time?
Russia is still heavily dependent on foreign medicines. While the healthcare budget heads in somewhat the opposite direction, skyrocketing prices for these medicines has been cause for heated debate. In particular, once again there are discussions...
Alerts
09 June 2015
Offshore amnesty and tax repatriation in action
Pepeliaev Group advises that decisions have been taken which were needed for the law on 'tax repatriation' (in effect from 2015) to take full force:
1) the procedure and the time frames have been set for the 'offshore amnesty';
2)...
Articles and comments
08 June 2015
B2B: Amendments to Part IV of the Russian Civil Code in 2015
2014 saw most of the amendments to Part IV of the Russian Civil Code come into effect. The amendments were set by Federal Law No. 35-FZ dated 12 March 2014 "On Amending Part I, II and IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and ...
Legal overviews
08 June 2015
Overview of tax events for May 2015
The Russian Government has approved a list of VAT-exempt materials for scientific research which do not have Russian substitutes. The list includes 180 items (Resolution No. 469 dated 15 May 2015).

Articles and comments
28 May 2015
Which sessions are you looking forward to?
Sergey Sosnovsky from Pepeliaev Group: I will of course hear the plenary session which will cover politics as well as the law and go to Valery Zorkin’s session. He is a very respected person.
Articles and comments
28 May 2015
New rules for Russian IP
In October 2014, the Russian Civil Code was extensively amended in relation to regulating intellectual property. For instance, a fully fledged expert examination of utility models will be conducted, rather than a formal examination. The previous...