The author analyzes the different forms of relationships between businesses and bodies of state power in Russia: private and public partnership, the delegation of public powers and property, self-regulation, the transfer of government authority to the private organizations, self-regulation, and...

This paper reviews the activity of professional legal organizations as factors in the transfer from limited access order (LAO) to open access order (OAO) according to the theory of North, Wallis and Weingast. By analyzing the experience of lawyers' collective action in developing countries, this...

We analyse the professional community of attorneys in Russia in order to understand their potential for collective action in an imperfect institutional environment. In 2013 we conducted a survey of 372 attorneys in 9 regions of Russia. Two main hypotheses are tested: 1) lawyers with strong...

This article touches upon the problem of legal ensuring the information security of business entities. Topicality of the problem is predetermined by high importance of business information protection in market economy functioning in the context of information-oriented society and digital era....

The article discusses the nature of non-tax public revenue. The author first offers his own universal definition of public revenue. This results in the discovery of a variety of theoretical and practical problems, which include decentralized revenue, non-uniformity of non-tax revenue, and a...

On 14 July, 2015 the Russian President signed Law No. 264-FZ which grants Russian citizens the right to request the delisting of search results which link to inaccurate or irrelevant information about them (“the right to be forgotten”).This paper discusses the decision of the Court of...

This paper analyses the legal substance of the customs procedure of the free customs zone in the Eurasian Economic Union by investigating its main features and peculiarities. In particular, we show that the customs procedure of the free customs zone is an economic instrument of state regulation...

This paper is a short English version of my various articles on this topic published in Russian, in journals: "The business and the law" (Chozjaistvo i pravo) and "The patents and licenses" (Patenti i licenzii).As is known modern Russian revolution in the field of intellectual property...

The sui generis database right was added to copyright protection of databases in the Russian legislation only in 2008. In December 2010, new draft amendments to the RF Civil Code were published, substantially developing this regulation. This article examines the position of the Russian...

The emergence of so-called “free” or “open source” software and the growth of its economic importance in various industries makes questions regarding the legal status of free/open source licenses especially important. In December 2010 new draft amendments to the Russia’s Civil Code...