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The Commercial (‘Arbitration’) Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region has upheld a claim of Kino City LLC, co-owned by Eduard Pichugin ( the former head of the Lenfilm studio), against Lenfilm. Lyubov Erigo, Senior Counsel of the Dispute Resolution Practice at Nordic Star Law Offices, considers that Kino City LLC managed to win this […]

Pravo.ru, together with intellectual property law experts, are telling readers about interesting decisions and events in the first half of the year. The Supreme Court put an end to disputes on how to calculate losses from the sale of counterfeit goods, while the Intellectual Property Court (IPC) formulated several important positions all at once. For

Corporate conflict something that business owners encounter regularly. The formation of a methodology for protecting the interests of a corporation’s members involves building a system that allows effective mechanisms to be determined for protecting the rights of a member of a corporation or a controlling person, depending on the type and nature of the conflict

In December 2022, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation demanded payment of a fine from JSC “Scientific Research Institute “Mashtab” (a St. Petersburg branch of the Rostec Group of Companies), but the research institute refused to pay. The Moscow Commercial (‘Arbitration’) Court upheld the recovery of only 5 million rubles out

Finland is one of the neighboring countries most frequently visited by Russian citizens. Thus, in 2022, the number of entries of Russian citizens to Finland increased by 71% compared to 2021 (872,971 trips). However, after the start of a special military operation, Finland began to apply measures to restrict the entry of Russian tourists. On

The first Kazan Legal Week – 2023 was held from 29 June to 1 July, and was a highlight of the year for the legal community. The new summer legal forum was organised by legal publication Pravo.ru together with the law firm ANP Zenit. Participants discussed the current legal agenda, learned how to do business

In the period from 2020 to 2022, the percentage of claims satisfied in bankruptcy cases for the recovery of damages from persons controlling the debtor ranged from 58.37% to 61.26%. Meanwhile, the figure for having subsidiary liability imposed was between 58.65% and 59.60%. In the context of general lawsuit proceedings, the frequency of satisfaction of

The ninth episode of the second season of the “Bankruptcy Talk” podcast is dedicated to cross-border bankruptcy. The hosts, together with Elena Viktorovna Mokhova, Ph.D., a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the Higher School of Economics, discuss the legal regulation of the issue, understand the terms, and evaluate the impact of sanctions policy

LLC “National Musical Publishing House”(NMPH), which owns the rights to the song of the group “Kino” “A Star named the Sun”, has won a dispute over copyright infringement against LLC “Almaznaya Chariot”, LLC “Makers Lab” and Irina Afanasyeva. The defendants were the creators of the musical ” The Diamond Chariot, based on the novel of

In the last week of June, the Supreme Court will hear 95 cases. The Board of Civil Cases will look into a dispute over compensation for the author of a textbook on budget law who did not receive money when the book was reprinted, as well as into the rules for granting a discount when