Two articles are planned to be removed from the Criminal Code.

Anyone who has a bank account and uses it for business, personal settlements, additional earnings or large money transfers is at risk of falling under the restrictions imposed by the "anti-money laundering" law 115-FZ. Experts interviewed by Pravo.ru told us how to avoid being blocked and what to do if you do encounter them. One lawyer explained how to successfully challenge a bank's decision in court, using a case from his practice.

Ksenia Panteleeva is the Head of the Ural office of Alliance Legal CG (Yekaterinburg) since January 2022. She is the Head of Corporate and Labor Law Practice and the Advisor of Dispute Resolution Practice. She consults then clients and represents their interests in Corporate Law, Right in Personam and Right in Rem issues. Ksenia has a highly respected reputation as a top expert in tax structuring and dispute resolution. We talked to Ksenia Panteleeva about the current goals set in her department and about the competences and qualities that a modern regional office manager should have in the leading law fi rm to provide prompt and professional legal support to the clients.

The Court noted that regional public authorities have the right to decide on a different general rule for calculating the payment for a given public service than that established by the Russian Government

It is not uncommon for banks to charge a fee to a customer's account for this service: "transferring money to a third party recoverer under a writ of execution". This is illegal in some cases. Yunona Sizykh (Alliance Legal CG) explained the bank's mistake and how to restore justice

The ministry proposed that employees of Russian companies working abroad should be required to pay taxes in Russia, that compensation payments to remote workers should be exempt from personal income tax, and that the procedure for granting social tax deductions should be simplified.

He stressed that the head of an organisation has material liability for losses caused by his or her culpable actions, which arises in cases stipulated by laws other than the Labour Code

Real estate transactions will become slower, more complicated and potentially more expensive, experts believe. The new approach, which was supposed to protect the personal data of Russians, is in fact undermining the well-established foundations of real estate turnover.

In 2020, the court found the woman guilty of distributing drugs. Her lawyer was unable to attend the hearing when the verdict was appealed in cassation. The case was eventually heard without him, even though the lawyer had indicated that he would not be able to attend. The Supreme Court has clarified why a hearing cannot be held without defence counsel even if the defendant has no objections. Read about the problem of lawyers being "forced out" of proceedings and how to behave in such a situation in this article.

Nikolai Ovchinnikov began his service in the internal affairs agencies as an investigator, was an inspector of criminal investigation, headed the Yekaterinburg City Department of Internal Affairs, the Main Department for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism of the Russian Interior Ministry, and for several years was a state secretary – Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia. He was elected deputy to the State Duma of the third convocation and took an active part in legislative activities. In 2014 Honored Lawyer of Russia, retired Colonel General of Police Nikolay Ovchinnikov headed the Scientifiс Advisory Board of the consulting firm Alliance Legal CG. In 2022 he was appointed Acting Chairman of the Council of Veterans of Internal Affairs and Internal Troops of the Russian Federation