On 10 September 2019 the Russian State Duma in its first reading adopted a draft bill increasing fines for non-compliance with data localisation requirements

A Russian telecommunications services company Mobile TeleSystems PJSC ("Mobile") agreed to settle SEC charges that it violated the anti-bribery, books ...

Federal Law 139-FZ came into force on 26 May 2021, thereby denouncing the agreement between Russia and the Netherlands on double taxation avoidance and tax evasion provisions relating to income and property tax.

Since 2015, employers have been able to motivate employees by transferring them a part of shares or a stake in the authorized capital of an organization.

LLC "Metso Outotec" ("claimant") filed an application with the Commercial Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast seeking refusal to recognize and enforce on the territory of the Russian Federation the Decision of the Economic Court of the Gomel Oblast of the Republic of Belarus.

The RF Central Bank (the "CBR") recently has announced that the requirement to hold special transaction accounts and noninterest reserves for certain transactions will be lifted on July 1, 2006, as opposed to the original deadline of January 1, 2007.

The enforcement procedure for pledges and mortgages, covering movable and immovable property, has recently been amended to clarify and streamline the enforcement procedure, including for out-of-court enforcement, which was initially introduced by Federal Law No. 306 - FZ on December 30, 2008.

Resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Arbitration (Commercial) Court of the RF (the "Resolution") concerning the application of Section 120 of the Civil Code with respect to state- and municipality-owned enterprises, was adopted on June 22, 2006 by the Court’s plenary sessi

The Russian Federation's Minister of Agriculture, Alexandr Tkachov announced on 26 May 2015 that duty on exports of Russian grain will be imposed during the 2015-16 agricultural year, beginning 1 July.

As already mentioned in our previous news on this topic, due to COVID-19 the Russian State Duma adopted on 18 March 2020 Federal Law No. 50-FZ.

Large-scale amendments to corporate legislation were signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 8th of August.

Dentons fields one of the largest international law firm teams in Russia

The RF Constitutional Court (the "Constitutional Court") recently ruled in favor of public communications network operators in a case initiated by the Koryaksky Autonomous District Duma.

You might recall that the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act added Section 13(r) to the Exchange Act, which requires public reporting companies that knowingly engaged ...

Companies operating in Russia can now exclude themselves from liability for bribery by way of self-reporting to the Russian law enforcement agencies.

In Russland tätige Unternehmen können sich nun durch Selbstanzeige bei den russischen Strafverfolgungsbehörden von der Haftung für Bestechungsdelikte befreien.

On 1 January 2020 amendments to the Federal Law "On the Securities Market" (SM Law) specifying the procedure for depositing securities under an escrow agreement entered into force.

Russia's data protection authority, the Roskomnadzor, has recently announced its intention to increase the number of data localisation audits it carries out in 2016.

The European Union has adopted its 21st sanctions package against Russia, expanding sectoral and economic measures while adding new individual and entity designations.