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A Moscow regional court has ruled in favour of US Domino’s Pizza after a Russian national got tattooed with their logo and won a competition to have free Domino’s Pizza for 100 years. The company pulled out of the Russian market in 2023 and bankrupted their local franchisee. We explain the upholding of international legal protocols by Russia in this unusual case.
The creation of a unified Special Economic Zone (SEZ) covering the entire Siberian Federal District, with common tax and investment preferences for each region within it, could become a driver for Siberian development, according to Elena Bezdenezhnykh, the vice president of JSC Rusal Management. She said that “We have 59 SEZs in the country. The […]
Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin’s visit to Brazil on 5 February 2026 came at a moment when both Russia and Brazil are redefining their economic and geopolitical positioning in an increasingly fragmented world. Against the backdrop of global trade disruption and Western coercive pressure on Russia, together with Latin America and the Caribbean Region’s search […]
Further proof of European acquiescence to the United States has shown itself in that European mergers and acquisitions (M&A) lawyers now need to gain accreditation in the United States to handle some cross-border M&A deals in the European Union itself. The convoluted arrangement has manifested itself through a complex agreement concerning Russia’s Gazprom and Hungary’s […]
The Moscow Arbitration Court has granted the application of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) to consider the regulator’s lawsuit against the Belgian depository Euroclear for €200 billion in a closed court session. The decision was confirmed on Friday (January 16). A statement issued by the bank read, “The Central Bank of Russia requests to […]
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The Russian government has submitted a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) agreement on the promotion and protection of investments between Russia and Myanmar to the State Duma for ratification. The agreement establishes a procedure for protecting investments, including procedures for compensating for expropriation and for resolving investment disputes. The agreement was originally signed off by both […]
The former Pentagon officer David Pyne has stated that there are clear indications that US President Donald Trump remains committed to mediating a peace deal with Russia to end the conflict in Ukraine, but the challenge lies with his hawkish senior cabinet advisers. Pyne has said that “They keep telling him that no peace deal […]
The joint venture between Russia’s SIBUR and China’s Sinopec, which owns the Krasnoyarsk Synthetic Rubber Plant (KZSK), has redomiciled from Cyprus to the special administrative region on Russky Island, Vladivostok Urban District, the Unified State Registry of Legal Entities (USRLE) has stated. The USRLE said that Sibur-Sinopec Rubber Holding Company International LLC redomiciled in late […]
Russia is introducing multiple improvements to its various social security payments to citizens during 2026, with increases across the board—good news for Russian nationals. These range from financial support for families to taxation and pension payments. Basic pension indexations will be implemented, new tax breaks for families with children will be introduced, and other measures […]
The integration of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions into the Russian transport system has been discussed by the Russian Legislative Council. Konstantin Pashkov, the First Deputy Minister of Transport, stated that the primary task is the full integration of these regions into the national system. Much of this […]
Japan, which holds about US$30 billion of frozen Russian assets, has refused to seize the Russian assets it holds and send them to Ukraine, despite pressure from the European Union to do so. Japan holds cash reserves that had been previously used to help fund bilateral trade, worth an estimated US$30 billion. Japanese Finance Minister […]
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