Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 28.02.2005

Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 133n of December 31, 2004 on the Introduction of Reports of Spending of the Budget Allocations to Pay out Monetary Compensations To Rehabilitated Persons Envisaged in Articles 15 and 16.1 of the Law of the Russian Federation on the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Political Repressions <br>

Beginning with the report for the I quarter of 2005, introduces the form of the quarterly and annul report 2-kr "On the Spending of the Budget Allocations to Pay out Monetary Compensation to Rehabilitated Persons Envisaged in Articles 15 and 16.1 of the Law of the Russian Federation on the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Political Repressions".

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on February 21, 2005. Reg. No. 6344.

Decision of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation No. 3 of February 24, 2005 on the Judicial Practice in Cases of Protection of the Honour and Dignity of Citizens, As Well As the Business Reputation of Citizens and Legal Entities <br>

Provides a summary of the judicial practice in cases of protection of the honour and dignity of citizens, as well as the business reputation of citizens and legal entities. Explains individual issues emerging in the judicial practice pursuant to the ratification by the Russian Federation of the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the Protocols to it. The courts' attention is drawn to the fact that the right of citizens for the protection of honour, dignity and the business reputation is their constitutional right, and the business reputation of legal entities is one of the prerequisites of their successful work. When solving the mentioned disputes, the courts should be guided not only by the norms of the Russian legislation, but also take into account the legal position of the European Human Rights Court.

Judicial protection of the honour, dignity and business reputation of the person having experienced a dissemination of a false detractive information pertaining to him is not excluded also in cases when it is impossible to identify the person having disseminated such information (for example, when anonymous letters are being sent to citizens and organisations, or information is disseminated over the Internet by a person impossible to identify).

If the false detractive information has been placed in the Internet on the site registered as a means of mass media according to the established legal procedure, one should be guided by the norms pertaining to mass media when processing the lawsuit on the protection of the honour, dignity and business reputation.

Since the requirements of protection of the honour, dignity and business reputation are being the requirements of protection of non-proprietary rights, the limitation of action does not apply to them except for the cases envisaged in the law.