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SPIC 2.0: Mechanism for development of innovations and introduction of modern technologies

On 2 August 2019, the President of the Russian Federation signed a legislative package concerning significant reforms for the mechanism of special investment contracts. Amendments refer to legal regulation in industrial policy and affect tax and fiscal legislation.

In this review, VEGAS LEX experts have analyzed changes, goals and prospects of the updated SPIC mechanism.

Anonymizers and VPN services are banned. How should the new rules be applied for business-related purposes?

On July 30th, 2017, the Russian President signed Federal Law No. 276-FZ dated July 29th, 2017 "On Introducing Amendments Into the Federal Law on Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection". The Amendments, among other things, prohibit using technologies, information systems, and programs that permit getting around blocked sites with banned content to which access is restricted inside Russian borders. The legislative innovation will only apply to those anonymizers, VPN services, and other programs that provide access to online resources and information and telecommunication networks to which access has been blocked by the Federal Service for Oversight in Communications, Information Technologies, and Mass Communications.

The alcoholic products market: actual problems, regulation, litigation

The alcohol market occupies a leading position among the other branches of the food sector in Russia, bringing considerable income into the state budget. During the years 2012-2014, as a result of a sharp increase in excise rates on alcoholic beverages, and the general deterioration of the economic situation, retail sales of alcohol in Russia decreased by almost one quarter, due to outflow of consumers to the illegal sector. In this regard, the Federal Service for the Regulation of the Alcohol Market in Russia has taken a number of measures, which in 2015, were able to halt the decline in retail sales of alcoholic beverages

Компания, пострадавшая от санкций США, ради компенсации пробует мигрировать в юрисдикцию РФ

Одна из российских компаний, включенная в санкционный список США (SDN List) и понесшая из-за этого убытки, пытается перевести разбирательство о компенсации в юрисдикцию РФ. Арбитражный суд Москвы принял к рассмотрению соответствующие требования ООО "Инстар Лоджистикс" к филиалу компании Nabors Drilling International Ltd., свидетельствует картотека арбитражных дел.

Примеру истца могут последовать и другие подсанкционные компании, считают эксперты.

Северокорейский след в российском банке. Обзор

Российские компании идут на рискованные сделки ради сотрудничества с КНДР в обход санкций.

Venezuela turns to India for oil exports as U.S. sanctions bite

Venezuelan oil company PDVSA is looking to double exports to India as U.S. sanctions hobble deliveries to the United States and Europe.

Венесуэла хочет удвоить объем поставляемой в Индию нефти

Венесуэльская госкомпания PDVSA рассчитывает удвоить экспорт нефти в Индию, поскольку санкции США ограничивают ее поставки в США и Европу.

Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Russia: overview and prospects

The rapid development of international trade in the 21st century calls for the unification of legislation and enforcement practices in the spheres associated with international commercial arbitration, especially so in the area of recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards.