Law & Legislation

Foreign NGOs to be banned from registering in residential premises - draft law

The State Duma has adopted in the third and final reading amendments establishing a ban on the use of residential premises as locations of structural units of foreign NGOs.

16:18 24.03.2021

Parliament’s lower house adopts bill on state protection of military personnel

The lower house of Russian parliament adopted a draft law on the state protection of military personnel in the third and final reading on Wednesday.

15:22 24.03.2021

Russian prosecutors to file claims with commercial courts as to state procurement disputes

Russia’s State Duma has passed in the first reading a bill envisaging that prosecutors are to be given the right to apply to commercial courts with claims concerning disputes over violations of the laws governing defense and public procurement.

15:00 24.03.2021

Russian MPs move toward pretrial blocking of online libel

The State Duma lawmakers passed a bill on prejudicial blocking of information recources distributing false malicious statements defaming people’s honour and dignity in the first reading on Wednesday.

14:41 24.03.2021

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Third foreigner ordered to death challenges sentence in Supreme Court of DPR

Briton Aiden Aslin, who had been ordered to death along with two other foreign citizens in the Donetsk People’s Republic, challenged his sentence.

11:17 05.07.2022

Number of appeals to Russian children's ombudsman increased by 2% in 2021

The number of appeals to the Commissioner for Children's Rights in Russia Maria Lvova-Belova turned out to be by 2% more in 2021 as compared with the same period of the preceding year.

12:09 01.07.2022

State Duma adopts bill on retaliatory blocking of foreign media in Russia

The State Duma on Thursday passed a bill empowering Prosecutor General and his deputies to ban foreign mass media in Russia in response to hostile actions by foreign states regarding Russian media working abroad.

14:15 30.06.2022