Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 5.11.2003

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1577-r of October 31, 2003

Approves the concept of development of the market of services of the postal communication for the period until 2010. The concept defines perspectives of further development of the Russian market of services of public use postal communication and the role of state management during its development for the period until 2010.
The Order provides the goals and tasks of development of services in conveying written correspondence, parcels, messenger and express-mail dispatches, money transfers, services in delivery of pensions and allowances, distribution of periodicals, information communication services. The main tasks are development of competition, determination of the list of services requiring licensing, as well as the working out of the normative legal basis in the sphere of postal communication.

Order of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation No. 3828 of October 8, 2003 on the Invalidation of the Order of the Ministry of Education of Russia No. 1955 of April 30, 2003 on the Endorsement of the List of the Minimum Necessary Works (Services) Provided for During Strikes in Organisations, Branches and Representations of the Education System

The mentioned list is abandoned because its earlier endorsing Order has been invalidated from the day of its adoption by the Decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation No. GKPI 03-653 of July 31, 2003.
The motivation of this Decision was that the list had been developed by the federal body of executive power without engaging all operating in this sphere all-Russia trade unions and associations of employers, which is in violation of Part 3 of Article 412 of the Labour Code of the Russian Federation.
Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on October 30, 2003. Reg. No. 5210.

Information Report of the Committee of the Russian Federation for Financial Monitoring of October 21, 2003

Explains that inclusion of Ukraine in the list of states failing to participate in international cooperation in the combating of legalisation (laundering) of incomes obtained in a criminal way and financing of terrorism does not imply imposing any economic or financial sanctions against it.
However, according to the Federal Law of the Russian Federation No. 115-FZ of August 7, 2001, obligatory control must apply to any operations with monetary resources or other property if the involved amount equals to or is greater than Rbl 600,000 with at least one party of the operation being a natural person or legal entity with respective registration, place of residence or place of location in the state included in the mentioned list.