Law & Legislation

Putin: Russia will draw up a national plan to deal with tax havens

Russia will draw up a national plan to deal with offshore tax havens, President Vladimir Putin said at news conference following the G8 summit in Northern Ireland.

10:31 19.06.2013

Justice minister admits no NGO may ever be put on foreign agent list

Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov has not ruled out that the list of NGOs registered as foreign agents will remain empty, as he spoke at a meeting of the Presidential Council on Human Rights.

15:54 18.06.2013

Smokers and non-smokers to be separated in Russian prisons

The Federal Penitentiary Service plans to separate smokers and non-smokers in prisons and other detention facilities, Valery Trofimov, who heads the service's department for social, psychological and educational work with inmates, told reporters on Tuesday.

15:24 18.06.2013

Russian Duma on its way to approving gay adoption ban

Russia's lower house of parliament has approved amendments in the second reading to a government bill which prohibit the adoption of Russian children by same-sex couples.

12:54 18.06.2013

Draft resolution obliging MPs to declare their expenses submitted to Duma

A draft resolution obliging deputies to declare their expenses by July 1, in accordance with a presidential decree, has been submitted to the State Duma.

10:03 14.06.2013

Lower house bans single foreigners from adopting Russian children

Russian legislators have drafted amendments to the Family Code, banning the adoption of Russian children by gay couples, as well as by single individuals living in countries where same-sex marriages are legal.

12:12 13.06.2013

Law on online piracy may be adopted next week

The State Duma plans to adopt next week a bill on online piracy designed, in part, to prevent the illegal posting of films and music on torrent trackers, United Russia Deputy Viktor Pinsky, deputy chair of the House Committee on Criminal Legislation, told RIA Novosti on Thursday.

11:50 13.06.2013

Russian senate to discuss fingerprinting new arrivals without visas

The upper house of parliament plans to discuss with security agencies and the police the idea of fingerprinting new arrivals, Ruslan Gattarov, the co-author of the initiative and the chairman of the Federation Council's ad hoc commission on information society, told journalists on Tuesday.

16:41 11.06.2013

Law protecting believers' feelings to become effective in July

The State Duma has decided to resume the second hearing of the law on punishment for causing religious offence in order to introduce several amendments, in particular, the date of its enforcement.

13:22 11.06.2013

State Duma to ban adoptions by foreign gay couples

The State Duma may pass changes to legislation banning foreign same-sex couples from adopting Russian children, Speaker Sergei Naryshkin told journalists on Monday.

15:48 10.06.2013

Top news

Russian courts allowed not to implement rulings of Europe's human rights court

Russia's Supreme Court proposed not to implement rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the provisions of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR).

12:53 09.12.2025

Redomiciliation stalls: How sanctions are shaping new practices for Russian companies

The mechanism for redomiciliating foreign companies to Russian jurisdiction, in effect since 2018, has recently encountered serious obstacles. Taking into account the background of sanctions-related restrictions introduced in 2022 through 2025, it has become extremely difficult to achieve the goal. The situation gave rise to the phenomenon of dual domicile and led to a rise in the number of new litigations, both in Russia and abroad.

12:32 09.12.2025

Soldiers jailed for killing US journalist Russell Bentley

A military court in Donetsk sentenced three soldiers to up to 12 years in prison for torturing and killing Russell Bentley, a 63-year-old U.S. national who collaborated with Sputnik news agency.

14:05 08.12.2025