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The government brought a draft law before the State Duma imposing an obligation on companies to obtain, store and update information on their ultimate owners, and, if necessary, provide it on request of governmental authorities. Non-compliance with these requirements will lead to penalties up to half a million rubles. However... Read more

The governmental commission on legislative activity gave a negative review of the draft law that cancels the prohibition to disclose confidential medical information to relatives and heirs of deceased persons... Read more

Last week the court in Kaliningrad made a very important decision: considering an inheritance claim, the court held that absence of a surname cannot be a ground for denial to issue identification documents. In other words, the court recognized the right of Russian citizens to live in the country without a surname. Lawyer of inheritance and family law practice of YUST Law Firm Svetlana Burkanova gave her commentary on this unusual decision to Rossiyskaya Gazeta... Read more

Rosseti and their affiliate, Federal Network Company, that regularly have conflicts on management issues, are trying to negotiate the dispute resolution procedure. The holding intends to undertake mediation functions in the disputes between... Read more

The government views the principle of competitiveness in the new draft of the Administrative Offences Code with suspicion – the necessity to summon policemen and officials who drew up protocols may lead to large financial expenses... Read more

Monolit Center company filed an application for bankruptcy of MFK Gras CJSC to Moscow City Arbitration Court. Earlier the developer subdivision of Gras group reported that it may receive two more bankruptcy claims - from VTB and Sberbank... Read more

Managing partners of major law firms told Pravo.ru portal how to carry out business in the new economic environment and what practices will be in demand in the next few months... Evgeny Zhilin sees potential for development in the field of business protection... Read more

The World Bank will not be able to take into account the incident concerning mass demolition of trade pavilions and kiosks in Moscow in its Doing Business 2017 rating, as its authors do not have such indicators... Read more

Affiliate company of Shell oil company appealed against judicial practice that decreases the price of legal services payable by the losing party, to the Constitutional Court of Russia. At the beginning of the year the Supreme Court fixed a “reasonable” amount of legal expenses, but the company thinks that the compensation should take into account market prices, rather than “lowest practicable” prices for services... Lawyer of arbitration and litigation practice of YUST Law Firm Dmitry Smolnikov told Pravo.ru portal, that... Read more

Mikhail Chugunov, Advocate of the Law Firm “YUST”, commented for the Izvestia newspaper on the news that the business community has requested the Ministers to deal with the newly-arisen practice to exact interest for traditional postponement of utility bill payments