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In Resolution No. 13640/09 dated 25 February 2010 the Presidium of the Russian Supreme Arbitration Court recognised that the tax base on the sale of property rights to residential and non-residential premises is determined as the difference between the sales price and the acquisition price of the property rights.

On 16 March 2010 the Expert Working Group “Development of Proposals on Priority Tasks for Adjusting the Effective Telecommunications Regulatory Framework” (WG-1) submitted new draft Requirements to Commissioning of Telecommunications Networks (hereinafter – the “Requirements”) to the Russian Ministry for Telecommunications and the Mass Media

The judges of the Russian Supreme Arbitration Court once again confirmed that the tax authorities must account for both the understatement and overstatement of tax liabilities when they audit taxpayers.

The Presidium of the Supreme Arbitration Court of Russia issued Resolution No. 11175/09 further to an application from Dirol-Cadbury LLC on 22 December 2009.

On 15 February 2010 the Russian President signed Federal Law No. 11-FZ “On Amendments to Article 29 of the Federal Law “On Banks and Banking” (hereinafter – “Article 29 of the Bank Law”).

In an information alert dated 11 January 2010, Pepeliaev Group reported that Federal Law No. 381-FZ dated 28 December 2009 “On the Fundamentals of State Regulation of Trade in the Russian Federation” had been adopted at the end of 2009 and would come into force from 1 February 2010.