The Government has approved new rules for recognising a website as a copy (mirror) of a blocked resource. The corresponding decision will now be made by Roskomnadzor, rather than the Ministry of Digital Development. Such document must include, among other things, the domain name of the mirror site and the details of the ruling by the Moscow City Court. The criteria for recognising a website as a copy of a blocked one remain unchanged.

An Agreement has been ratified between the Russian Government, the Bank of Russia, and the Government of Belarus, along with the National Bank of Belarus, on the exchange of information, including confidential data, in the field of financial market supervision and oversight. This includes supervision over regulated entities, cross-border institutions, and parent organisations, as well as the conduct of joint inspections and the establishment of joint supervisory colleges.

From April 1, 2025, mandatory deductions to the budget in the amount of 3% of quarterly income from the distribution of online advertising aimed at the Russian consumer have been introduced. They are aimed at supporting copyright holders of computer programs and databases, as well as the devlopment of information resources, the list of which is established by the Government of the Russian Federation. 

The list of greenhouse gases, emissions of which are subject to state recording, has been updated. The conversion factors for emissions into carbon dioxide equivalents (over a 100-year horizon) have been revised. The chemical formula has been changed for certain gases. Perfluorocyclopentene has been included into the list instead of perfluorocyclopropane.

The adopted amendments are aimed at solving the problem of a large number of multi-apartment residential buildings, the construction of which was stopped due to the bankruptcy of the developers of such facilities. The property rights to the land plots under such objects belong to the public-law company "Fund for Development of Territories" and, in accordance with the law, can be realised exclusively by auction or transferred free of charge to the ownership of the Russian Federation.

The procedure for reviewing a message about the need to amend a drug clinical trial protocol has been updated. Starting in 2026, organizations conducting clinical trials must send it through the State Information System in the field of healthcare to the personal account of the Ministry of Health, and before 2026 - by mail on paper. The message is registered within a working day. Within 28 working days, the Ministry of Health makes a decision on amending the protocol or refusing to do so and sends it to the applicant's personal account in the State Information System. 

Distributors of advertising on the Internet, owners of ad services and aggregators of information about goods (services) with an audience of more than 200 thousand users per day are required to distribute social advertising on their resources (services, aggregators) free of charge. Roskomnadzor has established a method for determining the number of users of information resources per day. 

Amendments to the Law on the Protection of Consumer Rights will be introduced from September 1, 2025. 

From January 1, 2025, government authorities and customers are prohibited from using foreign software on significant critical information infrastructure facilities owned by them, unless otherwise provided by federal law.

Shares of the joint stock company "Nizhny Novgorod Chemical and Pharmaceutical Plant" owned by Nidda Lynx S.a.r.l., have been transferred under the temporary management of limited liability company "Farmirus".

The notification of a controlled foreign corporation must be submitted regardless of the financial performance of such foreign company.

Each employee has the right to receive a salary to his bank account - the provisions of the Labour Code of the Russian Federation guarantee the right to unhindered receipt of wages in a way convenient for the employee. Both the right to choose the appropriate credit institution and the right to change it belong to the employee, not the employer. 

Clause 2.2. of the traffic regulations has been supplemented with a provision stipulating that if the civil liability of the owner of a vehicle registered on the territory of a foreign state and temporarily used on the territory of the Russian Federation is insured under international insurance systems, the driver of the vehicle must, at the request of a police officer, present for inspection a document confirming the fact of concluding a contract of insurance of civil liability of vehicle owners under international insurance systems.

The Federal Tax Service reminds that April 1 marks the end of the transition period during which taxpayers had a choice of formats for generating electronic invoices. The Order of the Federal Tax Service dated December 19, 2023 approved two Annexes, one of which is valid until the end of March 2025. Thus, from April 1, 2025, only the format provided for on Annex No. 1 to the Order to be applied to generate an electronic invoice and universal transfer document. 

Temporary management of Gazprom Household Systems JSC has been lifted from the share in the authorised capital of Ariston Termo Rus LLC, which belongs to Ariston Holding N.V.

As part of the counteracting against telephone fraud, the following is provided: 

The procedure, terms, composition and format for providing information by a communication operator to Roskomnadzor to identify communication facilities and user equipment (terminal equipment) on the Internet on the territory of a country, region or part thereof have been established. 

Communication operators, owners of technological communication networks that have a unique identifier for a set of communication means and other technical means on the Internet must be equipped with technical means of control over compliance with requirements on restricting access to information. 

On March 21, 2025, the Bank of Russia decided to keep the key rate at 21% per annum.

The operator of the mining infrastructure is obliged to report quarterly to the tax authority information related to the implementation of digital currency mining by the person to whom this operator provides services for the provision of mining infrastructure.

Amendments were made to the Law on Countermeasures to Combat Legalization (Laundering) of Illegally Obtained Proceeds and Financing of Terrorism, according to which the requirements of anti-money laundering legislation apply to branches of foreign banks through which foreign banks operate in Russia. 

Restrictions on transfers of funds abroad by non-residents from unfriendly countries from brokers or trust managers' accounts have been extended for another six months.