Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 18.02.2009

Order of the Federal Customs Service No. 1670 of December 25, 2008 on the Amendments to the Order of the Federal Customs Service of Russia No. 1057 of September 4, 2007

Improves the procedure of declaring of commodities moved across the customs border of the Russian Federation.

Letter of the Federal Tax Service No. BE-22-3/140@ of February 17, 2009 on the Information Necessary for the Calculation of the Tax on Extraction of Mineral Resources for Oil for January 2009

Provides information necessary for the calculation of the tax on extraction of mineral resources for oil for January 2009.

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 1-P of January 30, 2009 on the Case of Constitutionality of Provisions of Items 2, 3 and 4 of Article 13 and Paragraph 2 of Item 1.1 of Article 14 of the Federal Law on the Circulation of Lands of Agricultural Destination Pursuant to the Appeal of Citizen L.G.Pogodina

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation did not find reasons to recognise as unconstitutional the norms regulating the procedure of allocation of parts of land as shares in the common proprietary right for the land of agricultural destination.