Restrictions and measures of state support for business: the digest for 26 May - 8 June 2025

DRAFT LAWS

The terms and conditions have been developed for foreign companies from unfriendly states to return to Russia 

Draft federal law No. 928052-8

The draft has been put before the State Duma.

Measures have been introduced concerning companies from unfriendly states that have ceased / reduced their operations in Russia since 22 February 2022 and decided to resume their business.

These measures include:

• compulsory payments;
• the disclosure of technologies that are aimed at creating high technology products;
• other restrictions.

The Russian President makes the decision to apply measures to a specific company and approves the period for such measures to be applied.

The Government:

• applies the requirement for compulsory payments in the amount of 2% based on the size of the assets (capital) owned by entities that are subject to the measures in question. Upon agreement with the President, the amount of payments may be different. The money is channelled to the Fund of Technological Sovereignty of the Russian Federation;
• approves the procedure, forms and conditions for the disclosure of technology;
• establishes the list of types of business activity and other grounds for adopting the measures.

Lists of standard industry-specific items of CII have been developed

The Russian Government’s draft decree

Public discussions are now taking place.

Further to Federal Law No. 187-FZ “On the safety of the critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation” dated 26 July 2017, lists have been devised of standard industry-specific items of critical information infrastructure (CII). 

Examples of standard items have been specified. Key attributes for a standard item to be significant have been defined to include the following: standard processes that the item performs and the categories of activities it supports.

It is planned that the lists will take effect on 1 September 2025. 

How the prosecutor’s office will maintain a database of harm caused by unfriendly states

Based on the Russian President’s Decree No. 335 dated 19 May 2025 the following has been developed:

• The procedure for monitoring the harm caused by foreign sources, maintaining the register of information about such harm, as well as the form of the register. Among the sources of information about harm being caused are: case files from criminal / civil / commercial cases, procedural audits, applications of state authorities, companies and individuals, announcements in media outlets, etc. The procedure and timeframes have been regulated for prosecutions offices to interact with one another with respect to auditing such information and entering it in the register (see draft order of the General Prosecutor of Russia);
• regulations on how the prosecutions department should liaise with other state authorities when the information is being collected, audited, recorded and filed with a view to forming the register. The interaction includes: sending to the prosecutions department information about the facts of harm being caused and supporting documents; feedback being provided on the results of an examination of these materials; and joint audits and reconciliation being conducted (see the draft order of the General Prosecutor of Russia)).

The drafts are undergoing an independent anti-corruption expert assessment.