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Russian lawmakers advance bill banning websites advertising tobacco products

Russian lawmakers have submitted a bill to the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, proposing to consider websites advertising tobacco products as information prohibited for spreading.

11:12 14.06.2022

Ex-customs officer sentenced to 7 years in prison for tobacco exports machinations

Former St. Petersburg Baltic customs inspector Alexander Zharin was found guilty of taking 51 bribes in the amount of $178,500 for falsifying documents related to the export of tobacco products; the man was sentenced to 7 years in a strict regime colony.

16:09 26.03.2021

Russian woman ordered to 3-year jail for $4.5 mln cigarette smuggling

A court in Russia’s Astrakhan has sentenced a woman from the Republic of Dagestan to 3 years in penal colony for tobacco products smuggling in the amount of more than 320 million rubles (about $4.5 million).

13:09 17.03.2021

Twelve suspects in illegal cigarette trade put under house arrest in Yaroslavl Region

A court has placed 12 alleged members of an organized criminal group suspected of selling tobacco products without excise labels under house arrest.

11:56 21.10.2020

Russia’s security service disrupts smuggling of cigarettes from UAE

About one hundred metric tons of cigarettes illegally imported form the United Arab Emirates have been seized by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).

13:55 07.09.2020

Fines for nicotine mixtures sale to be increased in Russia

Amendments to the Administrative Offense Code envisaging raise in fines for selling chewing tobacco (naswar) and tobacco sucking packets (snus) has been adopted by the lower house of Russian parliament.

17:47 21.07.2020

Bill on nicotine mixtures excise duty to be reviewed by Russia’s government

A bill envisaging to impose an excise duty on orally consumed nontobacco nicotine-containing products, the so-called nicotine packs, has been submitted to Russia’s government for review.

16:05 26.05.2020

Civic Chamber member proposes outright ban on production, sale of tobacco sucking packets

A member of the Civic Chamber Sultan Khamzayev on Wednesday proposed to draft a bill to utterly forbid production and sale of tobacco sucking packets (snus) in Russia.

16:23 04.03.2020

IP Court dismisses JTI move to discontinue brand protection of Russian firm

Russia’s Intellectual Property Court (IP Court) has upheld an earlier decision dismissing a Japan Tobacco International (JTI) petition to terminate the legal protection of WinSStar trademark owned by OOO Baltiyskaya Tabachnaya Fabrika.

14:45 05.02.2020

Bill seeking ban on all non-smoking tobacco products reaches State Duma

The lower house of the Russian parliament is to discuss a bill submitted by a regional legislative assembly, which envisages complete prohibition of retail and bulk sales of all non-smoking tobacco products.

15:06 25.12.2019