Starting from January 1, 2016, Federal Law No.224-FZ “On public-private partnership…” enters into effect, which requires individual regulatory acts on preparation, assessment and monitoring of PPP projects and holding tenders

Starting October 1, 2015, an individual in Russia can be deemed bankrupt.

Decisions on establishing tariffs for natural monopolies will be adopted by a collegiate body within the FAS of Russia

Entities participating in investigation of cases on signs of violation of antitrust law now have new procedural tools that will allow them to defend their interests, and should cause a drop in the number of FAS decisions contested in court

Information provided by means of context technologies is advertising. Assessment of mass media products for rating them as national products is to be performed only as part of scheduled and unscheduled inspections. Scheduled inspections of small businesses will not be conducted in 2016-2018.

Russian antitrust authority prepares amendments to the Regulations on the government committee, allowing to shorten timeframes for approving transactions of foreign investors

Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade proposes to prohibit establishing rent and other payments made by the tenant for possession and use of real estate in foreign currency

Testing for narcotics can be mandatory for certain categories of employees

In 2016, Russians will be able to obtain the right to 1 ha of land in the Far East free of charge

The Law aimed at comprehensive regulation of state registration of rights to real estate and cadastral registration of real estate in a single regulatory act enters into force starting from January 01, 2017