In 2026, it was decided to move only two days off that fall during the New Year holidays: 

The Federal Tax Service announces the expansion of the functionality of the online signing service for electronic documents and tax reports in the My Signature app. It can now be used to send any document to the director of a legal entity or an individual entrepreneur.

From January 20, 2026, birth certificates will no longer be required for Russian citizens under 14 years of age to travel to Abkhazia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, or South Ossetia. 

Starting from October 1, 2025, regulation and supervision of the activities of payment acceptance operators, including compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) requirements, to be carried out by the Bank of Russia.

Amendments have been made to the Tourism Law, according to which credit institutions in which the funds of the reserve fund of the association of tour operators in the field of outbound tourism may be placed must comply only with the requirements for the level of credit rating under the national rating scale. The Government has determined this level. The previous criteria for selecting credit institutions for these purposes are no longer valid

New requirements are being established for credit institutions regarding the placement of funds from the personal liability fund of tour operators in the field of outbound tourism.

In certain situations, citizens will be able to confirm their identity (that is to present their Russian passport) using the Gosuslugi mobile app. 

Via the ‘GosDoki’ service on Gosuslugi, a new feature will soon allow users to generate a QR code, which in certain cases may be presented instead of a passport if necessary. The scope of QR code use will expand as organisations connect to the GosDoki service - the QR code can only be presented subject to such connection.

For citizens who had a foreign currency account or deposit opened before March 9, 2022, the limit on currency withdrawal remains in the amount of the balance of funds as of 00:00 Moscow time on that date, but not more than 10 thousand US dollars or the equivalent amount in euros, regardless of the currency of the deposit or account. 

The remaining funds can be received in roubles. 

The ban on charging citizens a commission for issuing foreign currency from accounts or deposits has been retained for banks for six months. 

Currency transfers without opening an account and via electronic wallets may be issued only in roubles. 

Non-resident legal entities will not be issued cash in US dollars, euros, pounds sterling or Japanese yen until March 9, 2026. There are no restrictions for other currencies. 

Resident legal entities can withdraw US dollars, euros, pounds sterling or Japanese yen from their accounts for six months only for travel expenses. There are no restrictions on other currencies.

On August 16, 2025, new requirements came into force for internal control rules developed in pursuance of anti-money laundering legislation by the following persons: 

- lawyers, 

- trustees (managers) of a foreign structure without forming a legal entity, 

- executive bodies of a personal fund (except for an inheritance fund), including an international personal fund (except for an international inheritance fund), 

- persons engaged in entrepreneurial activities in the field of providing legal or accounting services, 

- persons mining digital currency (including participants in a mining pool), 

- persons organising the activities of a mining pool, 

- notaries, audit organisations and individual auditors.

From September 15, 2025 to September 14, 2026, the Chinese authorities will unilaterally introduce a visa-free entry regime for up to 30 days for Russian citizens arriving for tourism or business purposes, private visits, or for transit travel.

As of September 1, 2025, the Bank of Russia admits administrators of financial and commodity benchmarks to the financial market and maintains the corresponding register. Inclusion in the register is voluntary. However, regulatory documents of government authorities and the Bank of Russia may only use benchmarks that are listed in the register.

The assets of Air Liquide Russie have been placed under temporary administration by LLC M-Logistika.

This is due to the amendments that came into force on September 1, which changed the rules for recording information on types of economic activities carried out by organisations and individual entrepreneurs in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs. The new procedure assumes that the registers contain information on OKVED codes of two types: declarative and reporting. The declarative type information is submitted to the registration authority by the applicant when performing registration actions, and the reporting type information will be entered into the registers by the registration authority itself based on data submitted by the Federal Service of State Statistics starting in 2026.