Pepeliaev Group reports that amendments have been made to the requirements for obtaining a work permit by foreign employees who arrive under a visa-free regime in the Russian Federation and intend to work in the sphere of housing and utilit...
Amendments have been made to the Methodology for manufacturers of medicines to set maximum sale prices for medicines included in the list of vital and essential medicines approved by Order No. 961n/527a of the Russian Ministry of Health and...
Pepeliaev Group advises that on 29 January 2013, the Presidium of the Russian Supreme Commercial (‘Arbitration’) Court (the “SAC”) will consider the regime for calculating the tax base for mineral extraction tax (“ME...
Currently, considerable discussion surrounds the so-called ‘Roadmap’ that is being developed by the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). This document offers a programme of steps to develop competition between 2013 and 20...
The main issue in the Protocol to the DTT with Switzerland is that there are new terms regarding information exchange. These terms cover issues with regard to both the taxes within the scope of the DTT (taxes on income, capital gains, and p...
Over the past 20 years Russian business has been desperately trying to adopt and apply the best U.S. and European legal tools for corporate governance.
The new requirements for personal data protection were approved by the Russian Government’s Resolution No. 1119 dated 1 November 2012 (the “Resolution”), which was published on 7 November 2012 in official journal Rossiiska...
World Trade Organisation (WTO). According to an official spokesperson from the Russian Ministry Affairs, on 23 July the Government of the Russian Federation notified the WTO that Russia had completed all the internal procedures required to...
In the current economic situation in Russia, when the state is actively involved in regulating the economy and robustly uses its administrative resources to regulate business processes, liaising with the state and local administration becom...
