Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 958 of June 25, 2025 on the establishment of a professional holiday - Russian Advocacy Day, which is decided to be celebrated on May 31

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 964 of June 26, 2025 on conducting an experiment on digitalisation of debt collection for housing and communal services

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. ED-7-15/429@ of April 28, 2025 - A reporting format submitted to the tax authorities has been approved for mining infrastructure operators

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 980 of June 30, 2025 on approval of the Regulations on the procedure for submitting documents on administrative offences in electronic form through the regional portal of state and municipal services

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 976 of June 28, 2025 on amending Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 2261 of December 22, 2023 - Experiment on traceability of drugs and raw materials for their manufacture has been extended again

Order of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring No. 74 of April 23, 2025 on approval of requirements for identification of clients, representatives of clients, beneficiaries and beneficial owners

Regulations of the Central Bank of Russia No. 852-P of February 18, 2025 The procedure for fulfilling mandatory reserve requirements has been updated for banks

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 435 of July 1, 2025 on amending certain decrees of the President of the Russian Federation - Restrictions on the exit of foreign investors from Russian companies have been eased.

Order of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation and the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use No. 699/06 of June 24, 2025 A new administrative regulation has been approved to confirm the fact of obtaining hydrocarbon raw materials during the development of a new offshore field

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 436 of July 1, 2025 on additional guarantees of the rights of foreign investors"

Information Statement of the Federal Service for Control over Alcohol and Tobacco Markets for importers of alcoholic beverages dated July 2, 2025. From September 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026, alcohol produced outside the EAEU is subject to labelling in Russia or on the territory of production

Information of Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation dated July 1, 2025 on the average price level of Urals crude oil for June 2025

Letter of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 02-07-08/63940 of June 30, 2025 on the methodological recommendations for the application of the "Unified Chart of Accounts for Accounting of Public Finances"

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. ED-7-15/300@ of April 21, 2025 on the verification of the validity of applying the zero VAT rate when exporting goods

Information of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation dated July 4, 2025 on average prices for the past tax period for the relevant types of hydrocarbon raw materials extracted from a new offshore hydrocarbon raw material field, for the period from June 1 to June 30, 2025

Draft Federal Law No. 959248-8 on amending certain legal acts of the Russian Federation in connection with the adoption of the Federal Law on Certain Issues of Regulating the Platform Economy in the Russian Federation

Draft Federal Law No. 959244-8 on certain issues of regulation of the platform economy in the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 193-FZ of July 7, 2025 - The specifics of recognition of title documents for real estate in the People's Republic of Donetsk, Lugansk People's Republic, Zaporozhiye and Kherson regions on the territory of the Russian Federation have been determined

Federal Law No. 189-FZ of July 7, 2025 on ratification of the Agreement Between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the United Arab Emirates for the Elimination of Double Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital and the Prevention of Tax Evasion and Avoidance

Information of the Federal Service for Control of Alcohol and Tobacco Markets of July 4, 2025 - In order to label imported alcoholic products with federal special marks, customs warehouses must renew their licences

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1015 of July 5, 2025 on amending Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1993 of November 25, 2023 - It has been decided to label electronic cigarettes as part of an experiment on labelling radio-electronic products

Federal Law No. 214-FZ of July 7, 2025 on amending Part Four of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation - The Civil Code of the Russian Federation clarified the procedure for collection and methods for calculating compensation for violation of exclusive rights

Federal Law No. 210-FZ of July 7, 2025 on amending certain legal acts of the Russian Federation - Civilian weapons will be easier to export

Federal Law No. 205-FZ of July 7, 2025 on amending the Forest Code of the Russian Federation - Amendments regarding forest roads will be introduced from September 1, 2026

Federal Law No. 200-FZ of July 7, 2025 on amending the Federal Law on Road Traffic Safety and Article 10 of the Federal Law on Personal Data - Russia will tighten control over the health of drivers.

Federal Law No. 194-FZ of July 7, 2025 on amending the Law of the Russian Federation on the Protection of Consumer Rights - Programs for gadgets can be installed and updated using RuStore

Federal Law No. 186-FZ of July 7, 2025 on amending Article 21 of the Federal Law on Limited Liability Companies - The procedure for selling a share in an limited liability company has been simplified.

Federal Law No. 185-FZ of July 7, 2025 on amending Article 93 of Part One of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation - The conditions for selling shares in limited liability companies have been simplified

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1023 of July 5, 2025 on amending Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1314 of September 27, 2024 - The Cabinet of Ministers has expanded the free economic zone regime in border areas

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1024 of July 5, 2025 on licensing the export of unprocessed lead, waste and scrap lead - Removal of unprocessed lead will be carried out by one-time licence

Information Statement of the Bank of Russia dated July 8, 2025 The Bank of Russia begins setting official rates for 12 more foreign currencies against the rouble

Information Letter of the Bank of Russia No. IN-016-13/91 of July 9, 2025 on the Code of Ethics in the sphere of development and application of artificial intelligence in the financial market

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 467 of July 9, 2025 on the state information resource "Digital Profile of a Foreign Citizen"

Order of the Ministry of Public Health of the Russian Federation No. 279n of May 15, 2025 on amending the Requirements for the structure and content of the tariff agreement, approved by Order of the Ministry of Public Health of the Russian Federation No. 44n of February 10, 2023

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1034 of July 10, 2025 - on additional coefficients to the rates of payment for negative impact on the environment

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1036 of July 10, 2025 - on approval of the Rules for the exchange of an electronic single transport document confirming the conclusion of a contract for the carriage of goods in direct mixed traffic, and the information contained therein, and sending such document to the state information system of electronic transport documents

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 474 of July 11, 2025 - on approval of the Fundamentals of the state language policy of the Russian Federation

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1852-r of July 10, 2025 - new rates of payment for negative impact on the environment: new rates of payment for negative impact on the environment have been approved, and the Order shall be applicable to legal relations that arose from January 1, 2025.

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1879-r of July 12, 2025 - for tour operators in the field of outbound tourism, the contribution to the personal liability fund for 2025 has been reduced and the deadline for its payment has been extended.

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 475 of July 15, 2025 - on the special procedure for the preparation, approval, adoption and entry into force of regulatory legal acts in the field of marking goods with identification means

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1060 of July 14, 2025 - on the specifics of concluding (extending) a social bank deposit agreement, concluding a social bank account agreement, amending and terminating them, on the Rules for submitting a citizen's application for registration of a social bank deposit agreement and a social bank account agreement and checking a citizen for his compliance with the requirements established by part one of Article 36.3 and part one of Article 36.4 of the Federal Law on Banks and Banking Activities, the Rules for maintaining the Register of social bank accounts and social bank deposits using the federal state information system "Unified Portal of State and Municipal Services (Functions)" and the list of social protection (support) measures, the recipients of which have the right to conclude social bank deposit agreements and social bank account

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1880-r of July 12, 2025 - MAX Digital Platform will be created as the national messenger in order to ensure operation of the multifunctional information exchange service.

Information letter of the Bank of Russia No. IN-02-28/90 of July 7, 2025 - on the Responsible Investment Code: the Bank of Russia has developed a Code of Responsible Investment for banks, insurers, management companies, NPFs and AIFs, and professional participants in the securities market.

Instructions of the Bank of Russia No. 221-I of May 26, 2025 - on mandatory ratios for banks holding a basic licence and on the Bank of Russia's supervision of the compliance

Instructions of the Bank of Russia No. 220-I of May 26, 2025 - on mandatory ratios and supplements to capital adequacy ratios for banks holding a universal licence and on the Bank of Russia's supervision of the compliance

Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 7060-U of May 21, 2025 - on the requirements that a person must meet to be recognised as a qualified investor, the procedure for recognising a person as a qualified investor, and the procedure for maintaining a register of persons recognised as qualified investors

Order of the Pension and Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation No. 565 of May 15, 2025 - approval of the values of the main indices for types of economic activity for 2026

List of instructions following the meeting with representatives of business circles (approved by the President of the Russian Federation on July 16, 2025): the Russian President gave the Government a number of instructions, including ensuring recognition in friendly countries of registration certificates for medical devices issued in accordance with Russian rules, as well as registered within the framework of the EAEU, for entering the markets of such foreign countries; submitting proposals to reduce the excise tax on liquid steel to support electrometallurgical enterprises, to suspend its payment by metallurgical companies when they open new production facilities; considering the issue of introducing additional restrictions on the use of software (including communication services) produced in unfriendly countries; improving the efficiency of control (supervision) over the implementation of mandatory requirements of technical regulations. Issues of state procurement were also highlighted.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1050 of July 12, 2025 - approval of the list of other persons to whom an individual subscriber has the right to transfer a subscriber number allocated to him on the basis of an agreement for the provision of mobile radiotelephone services

Review of judicial cases of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation for the second quarter of 2025

Information of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, dated July 18, 2025 - on the rates of export customs duties on oil and certain categories of goods produced from oil for the period from August 1 to August 31, 2025

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 502 of July 21, 2025 - on the specifics of ships entering the seaports of the Russian Federation: ships coming from foreign ports may enter Russian seaports only with the permission of the captain of the seaport, agreed upon with an official of the Federal Security Service

Information statement of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, dated July 16, 2025 - on legislative initiatives aimed at counteracting cyber fraud

Order of the Federal Tax Service No. ED-7-26/535@ of June 18, 2025 - on approval of the document format required to ensure electronic document flow in relations regulated by legislation on taxes and fees

Information of the Federal Service for Control over Alcohol and Tobacco Markets, dated July 22, 2025 - on revealed violations when submitting documents for the provision of a public service for issuing extracts from the Register of Licences

Information of the Federal Service for Control over Alcohol and Tobacco Markets, dated July 22, 2025 - on revealed violations when submitting documents for the provision of a public service for maintaining EGAIS

Federal Constitutional Law No. 1-FKZ of July 23, 2025 - on amendments to Articles 31 and 32 of the Federal Constitutional Law "On the Judicial System of the Russian Federation" and Article 38 of the Federal Constitutional Law "On courts of general jurisdiction in the Russian Federation": the rules for formation of the apparatus of justices of the peace have been adjusted.

Federal Law No. 215-FZ of July 23, 2025 - on amendments to Articles 4 and 16 of the Law of the Russian Federation "On Mass Media" and Articles 1 and 9 of the Federal Law "On Counteracting Extremist Activity": measures to combat extremism have been tightened.

Federal Law No. 226-FZ of July 23, 2025 - on ratification of the Protocol on Amendments to the Treaty between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus on Equal Rights of Citizens of December 25, 1998: citizens of Russia and Belarus are entitled to be elected to local government bodies in both countries.

Federal Law No. 238-FZ of July 23, 2025 - on amendments to the Federal Law "On the Fundamentals of Tourist Activity in the Russian Federation"

Federal Law No. 229-FZ of July 23, 2025 - on amendments to Articles 162 and 264 of Part Two of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation: the single purchaser of electricity in new regions is deemed exempt from VAT.

Federal Law No. 231-FZ of July 23, 2025 - on amendments to Articles 333.36 and 333.38 of Part Two of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation: close relatives shall be entitled to a discount on the fee when certifying real estate donation agreements.

Federal Law No. 254-FZ of July 23, 2025 - on amendments to the Law of the Russian Federation "On Tax Authorities of the Russian Federation": service status for evaluation the financial and economic status of companies and individual entrepreneurs is enshrined in law.

Federal Law No. 261-FZ of July 23, 2025 - on amendments to the Federal Law "On the Fundamentals of Protecting Citizens' Health in the Russian Federation" and Article 5 of the Federal Law "On Biological Safety in the Russian Federation": a unified register of enterprises and goods to ensure biological safety will appear in Russia.

Federal Law No. 255-FZ of July 23, 2025 - on amendments to the Federal Law "On the Federal Information Address System and on Amendments to the Federal Law "On General Principles of Organization of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation": organisations established by Moscow authorities (like Skolkovo) have been assigned powers in the field of the federal information address system.

Federal Law No. 259-FZ of July 23, 2025 - on amendments to the Federal Law "On Banks and Banking Activities"

Federal Law No. 264-FZ of July 23, 2025 - on amendments to Article 5 of the Federal Law "On Concession Agreements": transfer of airfields to investors has been simplified.

Federal Law No. 263-FZ of July 23, 2025 - on amendments to Articles 4 and 18 of the Federal Law "On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)" and Article 21 of the Federal Law "On Accounting"

Information letter of the Bank of Russia No. IN-01059/93 of July 25, 2025 - Information letter of the Bank of Russia on the specifics of applying the "cooling-off period" in car loans

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1087 of July 24, 2025 - on approval of the criteria for classifying information distributed on certain information resources in the Internet information and telecommunications network as advertising

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 520 of July 25, 2025 - on the specifics of the legal status of citizens of the Republic of Moldova in the Russian Federation

Information statement of the Bank of Russia, dated July 25, 2025 - the Bank of Russia has decided to reduce the key rate by 200 bp, to 18.00% per annum

Information letter of the Bank of Russia No. IN-02-59/92 of July 24, 2025 - on the dissemination of information regarding certain financial instruments and digital rights for qualified investors

Federal Law No. 265-FZ of July 23, 2025 - on Amendments to Articles 20 and 24 of the Federal Law "On the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom"

Information Letter of the Bank of Russia No. IN-010-59/93 of July 25, 2025 on the application of new legislative norms in the area of car loans

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1087 of July 24, 2025 - The criteria for classifying information distributed on marketplaces, aggregator sites, search engines and social networks as advertising have been approved

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1115 of July 28, 2025 on amending Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1931 of November 12, 2021 - The operation of the emergency services calling system using the single number 112 has been improved

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1118 of July 28, 2025 on amending Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 229 of February 26, 2025 - The Government has extended temporary restrictions on gasoline exports to producers of petroleum products

Review of the practice of consideration of cases by arbitration courts on corporate disputes related to the application of Article 53.1 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation - The Supreme Court has formulated legal positions regarding the liability of the management of companies and their participants when making transactions or other actions

Information of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation dated July 30, 2025 - Deflator coefficients for the mineral extraction tax rate for coal mining for the third quarter are known

Decision of the Bank of Russia dated July 25, 2025 - Decision of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia on mandatory reserve requirements and coefficients for calculating reserve liabilities