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ISDA have published a set of amendments to the ISDA Master Agreement (the ISDA MA) following the Covid-19 pandemic and sanctions on Russia. The changes allow market participants to deliver....

Federal law 7-FZ "On clearing and clearing activity" dated 7 February 2011 and Federal law 8-FZ "On implementation of amendments to certain Russian laws in compliance with the Federal law "On clearing and clearing activity" dated 7 February 2011 ("the new clearing legislation") have been adopted by the State Duma, approved by the Federal Council, signed by the President and officially published.

On 1 January 2012 the Federal law "On Investment Partnership", passed by the State Duma and approved by the Federation Council on 25 November 2011.

A new law that regulates crowdfunding came into force at the beginning of 2020 in Russia. The Law on Crowdfunding (also known as the Law on Raising Capital)...

In July, world attention focused on Russia, as the Group of Eight summit convened in St. Petersburg. Russia was invited to join the G8 in 1998 both to recognize and to encourage its transformation to a market-based democracy. It’s been 16 years since the Russian Federation formally declared its independence from the Soviet Union.

In 2020 Russia launched an intensive process of revising its bilateral tax agreements with numerous jurisdictions, including Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta and the Netherlands.

The biggest tax case in Russian history, Tax Office v Yukos, is receiving significant attention. The Yukos decision raises several important points of Russian tax law. <P>The profits made by companies related to Yukos and registered in Russian internal offshore zones were 'allocated' to Yukos.

Following the adoption on 16 December 2022 of the ninth package of sanctions against Russia imposing additional export bans and transaction bans for Russian banks...