Russian approach to immunity of the state agencies has not been crystallized yet. There are two aspects to this problem: (i) immunity of Russian public entities in foreign courts and status of their extraterritorial assets and (ii) standing of foreign public entities and international organizations in Russian courts...
by Ilya Nikiforov, magaging partner of EPA&P's St.Petersburg office
Since inauguration of Russia’s first bankruptcy law in early 1990-ies, insolvency procedures where routinely used as an instrument of hostile takeovers. Provisions of than-current Bankruptcy law that effectively restricted the right of debtors to appeal decisions of courts on interim issues in the course of bankruptcy proceedings were even held unconstitutional (and thus void) by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation...
During last twenty years there has been a rapid development of financial institutions that can be classified as Islamic in that they do not deal in interest-based transactions...
By Igor Serebriakov, EPA&P senior lawyer
Dmitry Afanasyev, a member of the board of the Russian-American Council for Business Cooperation and a lawyer with EPAM law firm, believes that Russia stands to gain in economic terms if it takes part in a worldwide antiterrorist operation...
The recently established Russian-American business cooperation council intends to promote actively the interests of the Russian companies on the U.S. market, a member of the Council executive board Dmitry Afanasyev assured Itar-Tass. He represented the organisation at a conference of Russian and American business leaders here...
Avisma lawyers (Berezniki Titanium-Magnesium Producing Plant),who initiated legal procedure in the USA against the well known entrepreneur K.Dart, suspect him of illegal transferring the yields from exporting titanium through the banks of New York...
The Federal Commission for Securities and Stock Markets under the Government of Russia ("Russian SEC") has become more active in regulating the securities markets in Russia, which confirms the trend to follow the American rather than European pattern of regulatory system. In its new role, the Russian SEC gradually takes away some control over securities regulation from the traditional regulatory bodies: the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reported that Philadelphia resident Dimitry Afanasiev, an attorney at Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, provided vital assistance to the Bureau in their efforts to crack an international kidnapping case...
Dmitry Afanasiev's time in the United States has been filled with international drama and professional success. After helping resolve a kidnapping case in Russia, he has started his own firm advising Russians and Americans on how to do business with each other...
When Russian lawyer Dimitry Afanasiev, 23, came to the U.S. in 1990 to earn a master's of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he never dreamed that two years later he would be working with the FBI and Russia's Agency of Federal Security to spring a couple from the clutches of Russian extortionists...
That's what a 23-year-old Russian associate at Philadelphia's Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen was able to tap when called upon to help free an Australian couple kidnapped on Jan. 8 in Moscow by disgruntled business associates...
A Melbourne businessman and his wife have survived a week-long kidnap ordeal in Moscow in an amazing rescue tale involving international spy organisations...
A Melbourne couple being held hostage in Russia were freed after the FBI tricked the kidnappers into leaving their phone number on an answering machine. The number was passed to Russian police, who swooped on the hideout...
U.S., Australian and Russian authorities teamed up to arrest 10 people accused of kidnapping a couple near Moscow and trying to extort $1.6 million from their relatives in New Jersey, the FBI said Friday...
As if elements of the novel Gorky Park had sprung to life, the FBI and Russian security police teamed up this week to crack a $ 1.6 million kidnapping scheme that threatened the lives of two foreigners in Moscow...