A special recording procedure for certain securities will be in effect until the end of 2025
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From March 1, 2026, the procedure for coordinating economic and other activities of organisations and citizens in the territories of national parks and their protected zones has been simplified.
It is planned to establish the procedure for coordinating transactions (operations) as a result of which persons from unfriendly countries acquire ownership, possession or use of real estate for entrepreneurial activity in Russia, the right to directly or indirectly dispose of shares (shares in authorised capital) of business entities, as well as other rights that make it possible to determine the terms for managing business entities or the terms for conducting their business.
Starting from September 1, 2025, a complete ban will be in effect on the engagement of foreign agents in educational activities. This means the following:
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.
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