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The Constitutional Court (CC) will consider a complaint regarding the compliance of paragraph 2, clause 2, Article 217.1 of the Tax Code (TC), which establishes a special procedure for calculating the period of ownership of property by Moscow renovation participants for exemption from personal income tax when selling a new apartment. Specifically, this provision allows […]

The Marso Polo restaurant, located near the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, may lose its veranda in the Mikhailovsky Garden. The Committee for the Protection of Monuments (KGIOP) is asking the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region to compel individual entrepreneur Arkady Teplitsky, co-owner of the Adamant holding company (No.

October marked a new wave of sanctions. For the first time since Donald Trump’s presidency, the United States imposed restrictions, followed by the United Kingdom, and the EU published the 19th round of sanctions. The energy sector was hit hardest, and lawyers note increased scrutiny of sanctions evasion: the consequences now affect not only beneficiaries

Temporary registration of a tenant in an apartment is a complex issue for property owners, and many try to avoid it. This can pose risks for the owner. In an article for RBC, Arina Dovzhenko, Partner and Head of the Real Estate and Construction Practice at Nordic Star, examines in detail what temporary registration is,

The Intellectual Property Court confirmed the independence of his invention. Lawyers attribute the dispute to improperly executed documents. Rights to inventions created in the course of work belong to the employer. However, proving this is sometimes very difficult, and courts hearing such disputes often side with the weaker party—the employees. Daria Bitkina, an Associate at

On October 22, the Moscow Arbitration Court upheld the claim of the State Transport Leasing Company (STLC) against the liquidators of 10 of its Irish subsidiaries, Damien Murran and Julian Moroney. STLC requested that the defendants, including not only the liquidators themselves but also the company’s now former Irish subsidiaries, be compelled to withdraw a

Bosco di Ciliegi, the GUM department store manager, has liquidated one of its UK entities, which had long held the rights to its key brands. Last year, Ilya Kusnirovich, the son of the group’s founder, assumed control of the entity. The Bosco di Ciliegi Group has decided to terminate the operations of one of its

According to lawyers interviewed by RBC, dozens of their clients have received inquiries from the Federal Tax Service regarding their UAE bank accounts. These inquiries sometimes even reach non-residents, and the tax service has generally begun to scrutinize residency more closely. “While previously exchanges with the UAE were largely formal, since 2024 the tax service

In September, US senators — both Republican and Democratic — introduced a new bill imposing sanctions on the Russian economy, but the text of the document has only just appeared. Nordic Star Partner Artem Zhavoronkov offers an exclusive commentary for RBC on the key provisions of the document and their potential impact on the Russian

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (SC) continues to develop a practice that allows for the prosecution of a Russian organization within its group for violations by a foreign company related to the implementation of foreign sanctions. The findings of the Economic Collegium in the case of Sovcombank versus the British J.P. Morgan Securities