Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 21.01.2010

Direction of the Central Bank of Russia No. 2353-U of December 1, 2009 on the Amendments to the Direction of the Bank of Russia No. 1612-U of August 31, 2005 on the Procedure to Send Requests and Get Information from the Central Catalogue of Credit Histories for the Credit History Subject and Credit History User by Appealing to Credit Organisation

Credit history subject (user) may get information on the credit history bureau keeping his credit history or on the absence of such information.

Letter of the Central Bank of Russia No. 6-T of January 14, 2010 on the Rates of Foreign Currencies to the Rouble That Are Not Fixed by the Bank of Russia

From 2010, the Central Bank of Russia stopped fixing official rates for 100 foreign currencies.

Letter of the Federal Tax Service No. MN-22-3/33@ of January 20, 2010 on the Publication of the Order of the Ministry of Finance of Russia No. 104n of October 15, 2009

On January 20, 2010, the Ministry of Finance of Russia published the order having endorsed a new form of the declaration for VAT which is the last date to accept declarations for the IV quarter using the old form.