Russian Administrative Offense Code to punish for authorizing operations with criminal propertiesThe Government Law-Making Commission has approved draft amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses establishing significant fines for financial operations and transactions involving property obtained illegally.17:46 01.06.2021
President Putin proposes to empower Prosecutor General's Office to represent Russia in ECHRRussian President Vladimir Putin has submitted to the State Duma a bill seeking to empower the Prosecutor General's Office to represent the interests of the Russian Federation in international and foreign courts.12:14 01.06.2021
Russian authorities to complicate rules for children traveling abroad with foreign parentsThe Government Law-Making Commission has approved an initiative prohibiting a foreign parent from traveling abroad with children being Russian citizens in the absence of the consent of the other parent.11:17 28.05.2021
State Duma Defense Committee backs ban on public identification of USSR with Third ReichThe State Duma's Defense Committee has supported a bill banning the public identification of the role of the USSR and Nazi Germany in World War II.16:20 27.05.2021
State Duma committee backs decriminalization of inadvertent drug circulation violationsThe State Duma Committee for State Construction and Legislation on Thursday recommended that lawmakers should pass a government bill on the humanization of criminal legislation in relation to persons who had committed violations of the rules for the circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in the course of medical activities, which inadvertently entailed loss thereof.15:09 27.05.2021
Government commission backs bill on Justice Ministry’s access to bank secrecyThe Government Law-Making Commission on Thursday approved an initiative giving the Justice Ministry a right to receive the banking secrecy information from credit organizations, according to Chairman of the Board of the Association of Lawyers of Russia Vladimir Gruzdev.11:14 27.05.2021
Russian MPs back tougher punishment for arms traffickingThe State Duma passed a bill toughening punishment for illegal trafficking in weapons and explosives in the first reading on Tuesday.15:59 26.05.2021
Russian government backs bill on punishment for underpayment of alimonyThe Government Law-Making Commission has approved a legislative initiative aimed at improving the system of prosecution for willful neglect to pay alimony.12:10 26.05.2021
MPs back bill banning extremists from running for State Duma electionState Duma lawmakers passed a draft law prohibiting persons having links to extremist and terrorist organizations to run for elections in the lower house of parliament in the second reading on Tuesday.15:10 25.05.2021
Russian Supreme Court backs creation of state judicial serviceThe Supreme Court of the Russian Federation still backs the initiative to establish state judicial service in the country, the body’s Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev said on Tuesday.11:41 25.05.2021
Russian President signs decree on external debt paymentPresident of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed a decree establishing a new temporary procedure of payment of the country’s foreign debt. The document was published on the official website of legal information.17:20 22.06.2022
Bill on liability for digital rights violation submitted to Russia’s State DumaChairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov has introduced a bill to supplement the national Code of Administrative Offenses with an article on the violation of digital rights before the lower house of Russia's parliament.12:45 23.06.2022
Environmental violations up in Russia by almost 3 times — Supreme Court headThe number of cases related to violations of the environmental legislation has increased in Russia by almost 3 times over the past 10 years, the Supreme Court Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev said during the presidium meeting on Friday.15:36 24.06.2022