Law & Legislation

Drug dealers to be sentenced to life

The parliament's upper house approved on Wednesday a government bill enabling courts to sentence those convicted of drug trafficking and smuggling to life imprisonment.

18:14 22.02.2012

Immigration offenders might be banned entrance for five years

The Federal Migration Service has suggested banning foreigners from entering Russia for five years if they have violated migration law twice.

16:26 22.02.2012

Medvedev facilitates salary recovery procedure for sailors

President Dmitry Medvedev has endorsed Civil Code amendments giving Russian sailors an opportunity to recover their salaries and other due payments in courts at the defendant's ship location or at the ship's home port.

13:37 07.02.2012

February 4: weekend rallies in central Moscow

Over 160,000 people demonstrated in Moscow on Feb. 4.

11:51 07.02.2012

Justice Ministry calls for tougher regulation of non-profit entities

The Justice Ministry has proposed toughening legislation governing non-profit organizations and granting the authorities more power to inspect their business activities, Vladimir Titov, the head of its Non-Profit Organization Department.

15:22 06.02.2012

Lawyers undecided on need for business commissioner

Russia will have a commissioner to protect the rights of all businessmen – not only foreign investors, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. However, despite its supposed aim is to protect private capital, the initiative could produce side effects.

18:06 03.02.2012

Putin: Russia will have businessmen's rights commissioner

A businessmen's rights commissioner with a special procedural status will be established in Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.

16:23 02.02.2012

Russia needs law to regulate taxpayer activity

Mikhail Mishustin, the head of the Federal Tax Service, has called for adopting a special law regulating tax consultants' activity.

15:13 02.02.2012

Russia's ex-Finance Minister critisizes judicial reform

Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who retired after a disagreement with President Dmitry Medvedev, said the authorities have failed to improve the judicial system.

14:55 02.02.2012

Russian sailors to obtain more rights to sue employers

The Federation Council approved on Wednesday the bill allowing vessel crews to sue employers at the vessels' whereabouts rather than where the employer has a registered office.

14:10 01.02.2012

Top news

Russia imposes sanctions against members of U.S. President’s family

Russia has once more extended its retaliatory restriction list adding 25 Americans to it, including members of the family of the U.S. President Joe Biden.

12:24 28.06.2022

Russian Supreme Court pushes for streamlining procedures governing judges’ career advances

A plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has proposed to submit to the State Duma a bill that would allow judges to be assigned a higher grade without taking into account the place of work of the judge and without observing the sequence of assignment of grades.

13:26 28.06.2022

President Putin signs law providing for legalization of parallel imports of goods

President of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed a bill providing for the legalization of parallel imports of goods into law.

17:56 28.06.2022