Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 30.10.2003

Federal Law No. 134-FZ of October 28, 2003 on the Amendments to Article 26 of the Federal Law on Attorneys' Activities and Advocacy in the Russian Federation

Specifies the categories of citizens enjoying free legal aid. Such aid is rendered to the citizens of the Russian Federation with the average per capita income of the family being less than the cost of living fixed for the subject of the Russian Federation in compliance with the federal legislation, as well as the single citizens of the Russian Federation with incomes being less than the mentioned value.
Earlier, legal aid was rendered free of charge to the citizens of the Russian Federation with the average per capita income being less than the cost of living fixed in the law of the appropriate subject of the Russian Federation.
The Federal Law is entered into force from the day of its official publication.

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1264 of October 27, 2003 on the Endorsement of the Regulation on the State Borderline Commission and the Composition of Its Positions

The State Borderline Commission is a coordinating body providing for a purposeful joint activities of the bodies of state power in the Russian Federation and its subjects, bodies of local government, organisations and public associations for the purpose of building and implementation of the borderline policy of the Russian Federation. The Commission may create borderline commissions in the federal districts and control their activities.
The tasks of the Commission includes assessment of the risks to the security of the Russian Federation in the borderline sphere and working out of a complex of measures to neutralise them, defining the national interests in the borderline sphere and other.
The Decree is entered into force from the day of its signing.

Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 647 of October 28, 2003 on the Amendments to the Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 361 of June 23, 2003

Changes the rules of drawing up of travel documents (tickets) to passengers going to the Kaliningrad Province from the rest of the territory of the Russian Federation in transit through the territory of Lithuania and back by the railway transport.
If a document entitling for the transit travel is not available with the passenger, necessary information of this passenger is reported to the embassy of the Lithuanian Republic to draw up the simplified travel document.