In December, the following amendments were introduced in the legislation: the minimum amount of wages and salaries was increased; from the New Year a new composition and volumes of the consumer goods basket in the Russian Federation in general were formed, and the subsistence level in the Russian...

In November, the following changes were introduced in the legislation: the list of grounds for approval by the Ministry of Justice of a decision on permission to include in the name of a non-profit organization of the official names -- “the Russian Federation “ or “Russia”-- was...

In October, the following amendments were introduced into the legislation: amendments were made to protect people’s rights to privatization of housing in which they do not live, but have the right to use it; norms permitting to increase wages and salaries of managers of federal government and...

In February, Article 212 of Part 1 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation on associations and (unions) was revised and amendments to the legislation on the subsistence level in the Russian Federation were introduced.

Late in December 2012 and January 2013, the following amendments were introduced in the legislation: Part 1 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation was revised; the list of socially oriented non-profit organizations’ activities carried out with state support has been supplemented; amendments...

At the end of 2012, Russia adopted the Law ‘On the State Defense Order’. In its present form, that Law does not have any direct effect in the RF legal system. Moreover, it contains so many blanket and reference norms that analysts have begun to doubt the true intentions behind this...

In March, the following amendments were introduced in the legislation: the list of federal state institutions of higher vocational training which independently set educational standards was supplemented; amendments concerning concession holders which manufacture goods, fulfi ll work and render...

In April, the following amendments were introduced into the legislation: the procedure for realization of the pre-emptive right to buying equities and issue-grade securities convertible into shares was specifi ed; the specifi cs of regulation of the work of employees who operate beyond the...

In February, the following main amendments were introduced into the legislation: a Civil Code norm as regards refusal of the heir from the estate in favor of other persons was brought in compliance with the Resolution of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation; provisions of a number...

Late in December 2015 and January 2016, the following main amendments were introduced into the legislation: requirements to the procedure for and conditions of carrying out voluntary medical insurance (hereinafter, VMI) of foreign nationals who arrived in the Russian Federation to work on the...