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Russian Business Ombudsman praises effectiveness of business support amid pandemic

The economic support measures taken by the authorities have helped to save small and medium-sized businesses during the period of the pandemic and respective restrictions, according to Business Rights Commissioner Boris Titov.

11:13 13.07.2021

Russia’s Business Ombudsman urges tax amnesty for businesses affected by pandemic

The Presidential Business Rights Commissioner Boris Titov has submitted his proposals as to a new cycle of measures aimed at supporting of entrepreneurship to First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov.

13:00 02.03.2021

Ex-Rosneft top manager acquitted of all charges – Russia’s business ombudsman

Criminal prosecution of a former vice-president of Rosneft oil company Anatoly Loktionov, who had stood charged with grand embezzlement, was terminated, Russian business ombudsman Boris Titov informs on Tuesday.

17:25 12.01.2021

Business Ombudsman presents proposals on new aid to businesses to Russia’s President

Russia’s Commissioner for Entrepreneurs’ Rights Boris Titov has presented his proposals to extend and expand the set of measures aimed at the anti-crisis support of businesses to the President Vladimir Putin.

17:38 28.12.2020

Pandemic provoked spike in appeals to business ombudsmen in 2020 – Titov

The number of applications submitted to the federal business rights commissioner increased by 16%, from 2,474 in 2019 to 2,878, Titov stated. About 40% of all applications concerned the coronavirus pandemic consequences, he added.

15:08 16.12.2020

Ombudsman Titov asks Prosecutor General to take Baring Vostok defense position into account

Russia’s Business Rights Commissioner Boris Titov asked Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov to note that investigators had rejected new documents submitted by defense in the Baring Vostok case.

12:38 20.10.2020

Russia’s Business Ombudsman proposes extension of support of SMEs for next few months

Russia’s Government needs to select industries affected by the pandemic not by micromanagement on the basis of the National Classifier of Types of Economic Activity, but proceeding from tax reports, Business Rights Commissioner Boris Titov believes.

17:23 08.10.2020

Russia’s Business Ombudsman asks President to save entertainment industry

Russia’s Business Rights Commissioner Boris Titov has appealed to President Vladimir Putin asking him to prolong a program of subsidies for wages and salaries in the industry of entertainment, organization of congresses and staging of exhibitions.

17:44 21.09.2020

Prosecutors pass 30 citations over nonpayment to entrepreneurs under state procurement contracts

Prosecutor’s Offices in Russia have examined more than 180 complaints against delays in payments for works and deliveries of goods businesspersons carried out under state and municipal procurement contracts prosecutors received from the Business Ombudsman Office.

14:18 10.08.2020

Founder of family café chain appointed as small and medium businesses ombudsman

Founder of the family café chain Anderson Anastasia Tatulova has been appointed as a public ombudsman for small and medium-sized businesses. A relevant order has been signed by Russia’s business ombudsman Boris Titov.

14:10 28.07.2020

Russia’s Business Ombudsman negatively responds to draft Code of Administrative Offences

Russia’s Business Rights Commissioner Boris Titov has submitted to the Justice Ministry a negative opinion as to the draft new Code of Administrative Offences.

14:43 04.06.2020

Russia’s Business Ombudsman urges more active fight against corruption in state procurement

The measures aimed to prevent unscrupulous actions on the part of commissioners in the sphere of state procurement lack efficiency, according to Russia’s Business Rights Commissioner Boris Titov.

18:51 03.06.2020

Business Ombudsman proposes to permit interrogation of persons outside Russia

Russia’s Business Rights Commissioner Boris Titov has proposed to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure with a provision making it possible to conduct distant interrogations via videoconference systems approved by law enforcement agencies.

17:36 25.05.2020

Russia’s Business Ombudsman Office offers entrepreneurs free mediation procedure

Business Ombudsman Boris Titov intends to develop mediation procedures to be used in disputes between entrepreneurs, according to his statement at a round table with representatives of the Mediators Union of the International Association of Russian-Speaking Lawyers (IARL).

18:07 29.04.2020

Fraud probe into Russian supercomputer designer completed

Investigation into T-Platform supercomputer developer’s CEO and shareholder Vsevolod Opanasenko and ex-chief of the Interior Ministry’s communications directorate Alexander Aleksandrov has been completed.

14:00 29.04.2020

Russia’s banks grant lax credits to finance wages twice more actively over week

The office of Russia’s Business Ombudsman Boris Titov has completed its second controlled drawing of preferential credits aimed to finance wages and salaries reporting persisting problems but more optimistic results as compared with its first such operation.

15:58 24.04.2020

Ombudsman Titov urges change aid eligibility criteria of businesses affected by pandemic

Russia’s Business Rights Commissioner Boris Titov proposed to change the current aid eligibility criteria for small and medium-sized businesses (SME) affected by the coronavirus pandemic based on the sphere of economic activities they are engaged in, when addressing an online meeting of regional business ombudsmen.

18:36 16.04.2020

Ombudsman Titov proposes to relieve small businesses from taxes for 3 years

Russia’s business ombudsman Boris Titov believes that small businesses may be allowed not to pay taxes for three years as the respective shortfall in budgetary revenues can be compensated from other sources, whereas the measure is necessary at the time of pandemic.

16:25 08.04.2020

Russian business ombudsman strives for working on digital legal proceedings

Russia’s business ombudsman Boris Titov has forwarded a proposal to creat a working group on the introduction of digital judicial proceedings to the Supreme Court’s Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev.

15:05 08.04.2020

Upwards of 90% Russian entrepreneurs affected by crisis – business ombudsman

Upwards of 90% entrepreneurs have been affected by the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic and oil price downturn, according to Russia’s business ombudsman Boris Titov.

13:44 08.04.2020