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Articles and comments
18 May 2015
Staying afloat: Russian law firms and the EU sanctions
Sanctions imposed by the EU after Crimea’s annexation have caused upheaval in the Russian market, but law firms remain optimistic.
Articles and comments
15 May 2015
Russia: The Intellectual Property Review
Russia’s civil law is currently being updated, including provisions regarding intellectual property. The majority of the forms of IP protection in Russia are regulated by provisions of the Civil Code, which has a fairly well-developed...
Alerts
05 May 2015
Joining the federal agricultural industry agreement for 2015 -2017
At federal level, the industry agreement has been adopted which sets additional obligations and automatically extends to companies in Russia's agricultural industry. To refuse to join the agreement, a well-grounded refusal should be submitted...
Articles and comments
30 April 2015
RUSSIA: An Introduction to Competition/Antitrust
The main areas covered by Russian anti-monopoly legislation are the prohibition of an abuse of a dominant position, the regulation of prohibited agreements, anti-monopoly requirements to bidding, merger control, and the prohibition of unfair...
Articles and comments
30 April 2015
RUSSIA: An Introduction to Life Sciences
Russian legislation covering the pharmaceutical and medical devices industry is still in transition and undergoing significant changes. The most notable of these involve harmonising it with the best international practices, strengthening ...
Legal overviews
30 April 2015
Overview of tax events for April 2015
On 3 May, the Russian President signed Federal Law No. 113-FZ. This law establishes that a tax agent is obliged to provide quarterly estimates of personal income tax amounts which it has calculated and withheld, to tax authorities. If it fa...
Articles and comments
27 April 2015
B2B: Observing Bankruptcy Law: A Prerequisite for a Company's Success
It is a common but mistaken belief that bankruptcy law needs to be applied only when there is nothing to be done with a business but to bury it. Such an approach leads to extremely negative consequences, because it gives rise to material ...
Articles and comments
15 April 2015
New rules for IP in Russia
In October 2014, the Russian Civil Code was extensively amended in relation to regulating intellectual property.
Alerts
14 April 2015
New in the rules for state registration of legal entities and liability for violating these rules
Pepeliaev Group advises that a Federal Law1 (the 'Law') has been officially published, whose adoption is aimed at preventing legal entities from being established and operated to act in bad faith (by using dummy corporate officers, providin...