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Articles and comments
02 June 2014
New Law Bans Temporary Agency Work, But Allows For Secondment
HR professionals were alarmed when a draft law to ban temporary agency work (TAW) was put before the State Duma in December 2010. Thanks to the business community working together with great dedication, this draft law remained a draft for almost...
Legal overviews
31 May 2014
Overview of tax events for May 2014

On 23 May, the following draft laws were put before the State Duma

Legal overviews
31 May 2014
Overview of tax events for April 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed Federal Law No. 81-FZ dated 20 April 2014 "On amending the Second Part of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation", which is aimed at simplifying tax accounting and harmonising the rules ...
Articles and comments
30 May 2014
Protection of Shareholders in the Context of Takeovers
Russian legislation in the M&A sector is actively developing.  Two main M&A trends can be highlighted which may often not be mutually compatible.  On the one hand, any legislator aims at facilitating M&A activity by way of setting...
Articles and comments
19 May 2014
Special report: Russia – Feeling the chill
A quarter of a century after the first international law firms moved into Moscow, booming workflows for both domestic and foreign practice have suddenly been affected by president Vladimir Putin’s aggressive moves towards neighbouring...
Alerts
16 May 2014
Creating a national system of payment cards and other amendments to legislation regarding payment services

Pepeliaev Group advises that on 5 May 2014 amendments to Federal Law No. 161-FZ 'On a national payment system' were published and came into force. This significantly affects the procedure under which payment systems are organised and function...

Alerts
05 May 2014
News for employers: the law banning so-called ‘zayomny trud’ has been adopted
Pepeliaev Group advises that, on 5 May 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law banning ‘zayomny trud’.
Articles and comments
28 April 2014
Chambers Europe. TMT
On one hand, current Russian telecommunications legislation is characterised by a rather detailed regulation of certain aspects of telecommunications services. On the other hand, it contains various provisions that are clearly obsolete and...
Articles and comments
28 April 2014
Chambers Europe. TAX

In Russia, as in other countries, the crisis is pushing the government to devote greater attention to its tax policy. In doing so, the government has rather rapid methods at its disposal to respond to illegal tax evasion schemes. In general,...