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The FutureToday company in association with the Secret of the Firm magazine (Kommersant Publishing House) conducted a study of the employers’ expectations from the young specialists in the sphere of jurisprudence in July of 2013. 138 companies from the rating of the most wanted employers and the Pravo.RU rating of legal firms. The Law Firm "YUST" was among the respondents.

Mikhail Prokopets, Head of the Sports Law Group of the Law Firm "YUST", delivered a lecture to the students of St. John NYC university taking the L.L.M. program. The expert was invited to give to the young American lawyers a three-hour presentation of the peculiarities of the Russian sports law and the tendencies of its development.

Russian will not participate in the preliminary procedures in the international tribunal. Evgeny Zhilin, Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", provided the Kommersant newspaper with an expert’s opinion on the situation.

The experts questioned by RAPSI believe that Russia is not going to participate in the international tribunal on the case of the Arctic Sunrise and her crew. This, however, is unlikely to hinder the tribunal in Hamburg, where the Netherlands went in connection with the incident. Evgeny Zhilin, Partner of Law Firm "YUST", provided RAPSI with a commentary.

The problem of negotiated matches in Russia is quite acute. However, experts say, the mechanism of its solving is still not tuned. Mikhail Prokopets, Head of the Sports Law Group of the Law Firm "YUST", gave a commentary to Business FM.

The chances of winning a lawsuit against the State for those Russians, who attempt to contest in court the decision to transfer a part of pension savings from the non-governmental pension funds to the Pension Fund in 2014, are almost zero. The lawyers acknowledge that if the pension maneuver, that the Government has conceived, is actually done, this will breach at least a dozen of normative acts. Advocate Tatiana Starikova, Head of the Private Practice of the Law Firm "YUST", provided Gazeta.RU with an exclusive comment.

A master class by Vasily Raudin, Advocate of the Law Firm "YUST", was held in the Oleg Kutafin Moscow State University of Law on October 21 of 2013.

The traditional release of the “Legal Aspect” program was aired by the Echo Moskvy radio station on October 18 of 2013. The program is authored and co-anchored by Yury Pilipenko, Managing Partner of the Law Firm "YUST". Together with a well-known journalist, anchor Yana Rozova, and the guest Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Honorary Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, Chairman of the LDPR party, the perspectives of the future consideration of the draft law on unification of the Supreme Court and the Higher Court of Arbitration by the Parliament.

The Ministry of Communications submitted for public discussions the draft law on turning the Russian Post, the largest FSUV subordinate to the Ministry, into a joint-stock company. The Ministry expects to complete the task by the end of 2014, with the reservation that the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is to set the time limits for the privatization. Partner Evgeny Zhilin of the Law Firm "YUST" explained to the “Kommersant” the difficulties of implementation of the idea.

Last week, President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma for consideration a draft law, pursuant to which the materials of tax investigations cease to be the only basis for initiation of criminal cases on tax offences. The explanatory note to the draft law states that the effectiveness of solving tax offences in Russia is currently low. The Russian business community is convinced that the possibility to initiate criminal cases on tax offences according to the results of investigative measures will contribute to the deterioration of the investment climate. Dmitry Manuylov, Associate of the Tax and Customs Law Practice of the Law Firm "YUST", commented on the situation for the PRIME agency.