Olga Kuramshina

Although in the past year the most notable and discussed reforms were the reforms of tax legislation, another noteworthy trend should be noted as well. Lawmakers have begun to actively reform one of the most, perhaps, static branches of the Russian law – the labor legislation.

As we have written in special annual edition of Analytics, in September 2014 radical amendments  were introduced to the Russian civil law concerning corporate law provisions. The lawmaker has significantly revised structure of types of legal entities operating in the Russian Federation, and introduced new terms previously unfamiliar to [...]

Notorious events in the Crimea and in the southeast of Ukraine have caused major changes in European and American economic policy concerning the Russian business and, subsequently and promptly, reciprocal measures on the part of the Russian administration.

The year 2015 turned out to be rich in amendments regarding procedures of state registration of legal entities and sole proprietors. First of all, it is related to the fact that in the last two years corporate law underwent significant alterations, and secondly, experience has proven that tax authorities [...]