NCOs engaging in political activity to be treated as foreign agents under new law *

Russia - September 24 2012
On July 20, 2012, the Russian President signed a highly controversial law that will impose heavy restrictions on foreign funded non-commercial organizations which participate in “political” activity.

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Legislative update: increasing the efficiency of RF labor legislation *

Russia - September 24 2012
Several changes have been introduced to the RF Labor Code over the last few months.

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Russian legal update *

United Kingdom - October 6 2011
The UK Bribery Act 2010 (the “Act”), which came into legal effect on July 1, 2010, overhauled the UK’s arguably outdated corruption legislation and introduced a tough new regime that in some ways is more stringent and broader than the U.S.

Co-authors: Andrey Dukhin, Alexander Egorushkin , Irina Kulyba, Evgenia Gaysinskaya, Svetlana Kuzovkova, Kirill Skopchevskiy, Timur Djabbarov.

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Russia acts quickly to restore the right of employers to register foreign nationals: the visa regime for highly skilled foreign professionals is fleshed out *

Russia - June 13 2011
Few aspects of Russian law affect foreign investors so viscerally as the visa and immigration rules.

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Amendments to Medicines Law clarify certain procedures and set forth new rules designed to protect intellectual property rights following WTO entry *

Russia - December 27 2010
In the May edition of Dechert’s Russian Legal Update, we analyzed in detail the new Federal Law No. 61-FZ “On the Circulation of Medicines”, which came into force on September 1, 2010 (the “Law on Medicines”).

Co-authors: Evgenia Korotkova.

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