21 September 2006
Russia's higher arbitration court is preparing to define the protocol for governmental officials and judges in receiving and declaring gifts. The maximum permitted value of gifts received in connection with one's job is being increased from 500 to 4,000 rubles, and it will be necessary to declare personal gifts of more than 100,000 rubles. Infractions of these rules can become grounds for criminal prosecution. Experts note that similar rules exist in many countries around the world but admit that the prospects for the effectiveness of their control over Russian judges and officials is uncertain...
19 September 2006
St. Petersburg's 13th Arbitration Court of Appeals has ruled that Mauritania's Societe De Promotion De La Peche (SPP) should return three trawlers to Russia's state-owned Arkhangelsk Trawler Fleet (Arkhangelsk Tralovy Flot), the law firm representing the Russian company, EPAM, said Thursday...
16 August 2006
The Moscow District Federal Arbitration Court has withdrawn its July 25 refusal to approve a peace agreement between Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service and Eurocement, the country's largest cement producer...
25 July 2006
The Moscow District Federal Arbitration Court refused to approve a peace agreement between Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service and Eurocement, the country's largest cement producer, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the courtroom...
18 July 2006
Minority shareholders of YUKOS are taking legal action; On March 14, Russia received a summons to a court in the District of Columbia. Lawyers acting for American minority shareholders of YUKOS delivered the summons to the Russian Foreign Ministry via the US State Department. Russia is officially the main defendant now.
5 June 2006
The Murmansk region arbitration court on June 6 confirmed the wholly state owned Arkhangelsk Trawler Fleet's rights to three trawlers detained in Mauritania...
29 March 2006
The Russian version of ‘An Appeal to European Court of Human Rights’, a manual edited by a well-known British lawyer Philip Litch, was published in Moscow.
20 March 2006
Three international bidders, having enlisted the services of world famous architects, vied for the right to commit over $300 million to an extremely complicated redevelopment project with vague payback prospects. What's more, the outcome was known in advance. The intrigue was maintained till the very last moment with each of the bidders, it seemed, being firmly convinced they would win...
16 March 2006
Russian lawyers have challenged fines imposed by Norway on the Arkhangelsk Trawler Fleet Company concerning the Captain Gorbachev vessel...
17 February 2006
An article by Ilya Nikiforov, a managing partner of EPAM’s St. Petersburg office and associate lawyer Sergey Golubok outlining the new rules for international commercial arbitration in Moscow was published in the February edition of the International Bar Association 's information newsletter on Arbitration.
6 February 2006
The Spanish courts, acting on a request filed by Russian lawyers, have impounded three fishing trawlers that had earlier been confiscated from their Russia owners...