The Arbitrazh Court of the City of Moscow considered case No. A40-7096/2025 in a dispute between Vostok and the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use regarding an order to issue a subsoil use license. The crux of the dispute was whether the deadline for payment of the one-time fee could be reinstated and, accordingly, whether the license, which had not been issued due to the subsoil user’s challenge to the auction results, could subsequently be obtained.

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