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With a turn to the East in 2022, China has become Russia’s largest economic partner – the volume of trade with the Asian country in January-April 2024 increased by 4.7% in annual terms and reached $76.58 billion. For the whole of last year, the trade turnover between the two countries was a record – $240.11 […]

10 thousand subscribers may bring content creators to Roskomnadzor’s register Bloggers with an audience of more than 10 thousand subscribers may be required to undergo verification and submit data about themselves to Roskomnadzor’s register, according to amendments to the law approved by the relevant State Duma committee. Without verification, bloggers will effectively lose the ability

This year, new home buyers will have another reason to be nervous due to changes in legislation. Arina Dovzhenko, partner, head of the real estate and construction practice at Nordic Star , in her material for RIA Real Estate spoke about the problems a shareholder may encounter when taking possession of an apartment in 2024.

The deadline for filing applications for the registration of an invention that has already been demonstrated at exhibitions or whose information has already been published in scientific journals is planned to be extended from six months to a year. These amendments to the Civil Code by the Ministry of Economic Development have been approved by

More than 95% of all computer programs in the world are, on average, 70% “free software” – pieces of code that are open for use. But the rights of the authors of these pieces are protected by licenses, and not all of them are free, lawyers from the Intellectual Property and Information Technologies practice of

Two years ago, almost all foreign law firms left Russia, some of which opened Moscow and Leningrad representative offices back in the days of the late USSR. Online, not only the legal map, once clearly segmented by “elfs” and “rulfs”, changed, but also client portfolios and the business climate: with the departure of transnational players,

On May 29, the Government Commission on Legislative Activities approved a document from the Ministry of Finance with amendments to the Tax Code. The Ministry of Finance has already presented the main parameters. Changes for citizens involve five stages of a progressive scale. For those Russians who receive from 2.4 to 5 million a year,

Not all Creative Commons licensed material can be used without paying royalties. There are 7 types of such licenses in total, and only some of them will not lead you to court. Vera Zotova, a Senior Associate at Nordic Star Law Offices IP practice, and Olga Nechaeva, a Junior Associate, told us what types of

On April 1, St. Petersburg began charging a resort fee; It is expected that the decision will extend to most other popular tourist regions in the summer. The measure may affect professional facilities in the hospitality industry, players predict: in order to maintain occupancy, hotels will begin to move into “gray” schemes, and tourists themselves

Judicial practice on disputes regarding whether dividends should be included in customs value has undergone certain changes over the past decade. In particular, this has happened in matters of interpreting customs legislation, as well as how to form an evidence base for such disputes. In the new issue of the company law publication “Akcionernoye obschestvo”,