Authorities can seize land from private owners in the interests of the state. At the same time, challenging the seizure itself is practically useless: the owner in court can only effectively argue about the amount of compensation. RBC Pro selected the most interesting cases on this topic. In Astrakhan in 2020, during the resettlement of …
The Court for Intellectual Rights did not uphold the complaint of J. J. Whitley Distillery LLC from Kingisepp against the decision of Rospatent, in the spring this year, which denied the plaintiff exclusive rights to the appellation of origin of goods (APO) “Russian vodka”. The company required this designation to sell J. J. Whitley Artisanal …
Extensive amendments to the Federal Law No. 38-FZ “On Advertising” dated March 13, 2006 came into force in September 2022. And from September 2023 the provisions of the Code of Administrative Offenses on fines for violating labeling provisions came into force. However, advertisers and distributors still have many questions regarding the application of the new …
On June 29, 2023, the European Union’s Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on Markets in crypto-assets (“MICA”) came into force. It regulates the circulation of crypto-assets, establishing requirements for their issuers, issuance and circulation sites, and the process for adopting decisions on issuance. In the absence of full regulation of the circulation of cryptocurrency in most countries, …
In September at the Forbes Legal Forum, organized by FCongress, legal market professionals discussed the most pressing issues. You can read more about the discussion during the session “Sanctions as an indulgence for withdrawing from a treaty – the approach of Russian and foreign courts” in the column in Forbes magazine. Anna Zabrotskaya, a Partner …
The court ordered the Interregional Territorial Administration of the Federal Property Management Agency to repair three bomb shelters, and the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard to maintain them. The decision of the Commercial (‘Arbitration’) Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region has come into force, satisfying the claim of the MTU of the Federal Property Management Agency for …
When paying current payments to an organization undergoing bankruptcy proceedings, energy workers can achieve priority satisfaction of claims. The Russian Supreme Court has indicated criteria when this is possible. The Supreme Court did so when resolving a dispute between AtomEnergoSbyt JSC (a guaranteed energy supplier) and the bankruptcy trustee of TrikVol LLC. Kseniya Malmygina, an …
The company name “Yobidoyobi”, which was in use, has been recognized as contrary to the norms of morality and the Russian language. Experts interviewed by Novy Prospekt are confident that this could cause a new wave of claims from the Federal Antimonopoly Service against numerous franchisees of the sushi delivery service. Vera Zotova, Ph.D., a …
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In modern law enforcement practice, lawyers recognize that the most “problematic” creditor in bankruptcy cases is the authorized body, the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation. This factor forces participants in a bankruptcy case to find ways to pay off the claims of the authorized body, which indicates a legalized imbalance in the approach …
Experts discussed entering new export markets at the Balt2Media conference “Foreign Economic Activity. How to increase non-resource exports”. They touched upon legal and logistical problems, and even cultural nuances, in working with partners from India, China, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Türkiye. Anton Borisyuk, a Senior Associate in the Transactions & Corporate Law Practice at Nordic …
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