The Constitutional Court is the Russian judicial authority for constitutional oversight which has the power to interpret the Constitution.

It may be too early to judge whether Russia’s new competition law, which took effect less than five months ago, will live up to its promise to modernize and streamline Russian antimonopoly review of mergers, acquisitions, and similar equity transactions.

The Federal Law 'On the Fundamentals of State Regulation of Trade Activities in the Russian Federation' (hereinafter - Trading Activities Law) clarifies the definition of trade network...

We have become accustomed to the anti-IP initiatives of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) in Russia.

Keywords play an important role in e-marketing. After typing a specific product name, company name or brand in a search engine, potential customers and users may view specific offers and ...

Franchising agreement is contractual arrangement which entitles one party - the franchisor - to control, direct and coordinate commercial activity of the other party – the franchisee.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service has published merger control guidelines. This is the first time over the fifteen-year existence of the modern Competition Law that the service has published guidelines of such scope and depth in this area.

Foreign sanctions, including secondary US sanctions that are aimed at non-US companies doing business with Russia, are forcing many international companies to carefully evaluate and restructure ...

Last year the discussion on patenting of inventions in the pharmaceutical field unexpectedly was given a new start.

On December 13, 2017, the Arbitration Court of Moscow declared that a warning notice issued by the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) against KYB Corporation (KYB) was justifiable...

On December 16, 2011, after 18 years of negotiations, the Russian Federation was officially invited to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) during the WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva.

On 18 November 2016 the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation ("FAS") published on its website the last package of clarifications this year to the amendments of the Retail Law.

Violation of patent rights constitutes patent infringement as well as an administrative offence. Moreover, under particular circumstances, it can result in criminal responsibility.

This means that the prior use of a designation by one company (hereinafter – the brand user) does not preclude another company either from registering the said designation as a trademark

A new version of the Russian Competition Law amended by the so-called ‘fourth antimonopoly package' came into effect on January 5, 2016 (except for certain minor provisions with an earlier effective date).

The basic provisions of the Recommendations that are worth to pay attention to are discussed below.

The Russian Law "On the Protection of Competition" came into effect on October 26, 2006.

Like other jurisdictions, Russia has a set of requirements which may impact upon persons considering investing or investing into Russian businesses.