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Moscow Business Ombudsman to follow up cases of detained entrepreneurs

Moscow Business Rights Commissioner Tatiana Mineyeva and Deputy Moscow Prosecutor Sergey Savenkov are planning to visit businessmen awaiting trial in pretrial detention during the year.

16:25 08.06.2021

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

Moscow Business Rights Commissioner seeks extension of business support package

Moscow’s Business Ombudsman Tatiana Mineyeva considers necessary to adopt one more support package for entrepreneurs.

12:08 15.12.2020

Public ombudsman for small and medium businesses urges revision of taxation parameters

Russia’s tax system hinders development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME); it is necessary to revise the parameters of taxation, Public SME Ombudsman, founder of family cafes chain AnderSon Anastasia Tatulova believes.

15:21 03.11.2020

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

Russian business rights advocates favor humanization of tax offences treatment

Humanization of treatment of tax offences will positively reflect on both business community and state, believes civil ombudsman for protection of detained businesspersons’ rights Alexander Khurudzhi.

14:00 30.09.2020

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

Moscow Business Ombudsman reports 100 successful cases in 2020

The Office of Moscow Business Rights Commissioner Tatiana Mineyeva could help to settle one hundred cases in favor of businesspersons since the beginning of 2020.

16:22 17.09.2020

Protection of interests of businesses and citizens is priority amid pandemic – Supreme Court Head

In the period of the pandemic protection of interests of businesses and citizens has become a priority, Russian Supreme Court Chair Vyacheslav Lebedev believes.

17:30 08.09.2020

Number of complaints submitted to Moscow Business Ombudsman quintuples

The number of applications filed with the office of the Moscow Business Ombudsman between March and June has increased fivefold as compared to a similar period of the previous year.

11:50 25.08.2020

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 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

Moscow business ombudsman makes 48 proposals as to aid to businesses amid pandemic

The Office of the Moscow Business Rights Commissioner Tatiana Mineyeva has presented to the emergency operations center on economic issues of the Moscow government 48 proposals aimed to support various businesses.

15:31 29.04.2020