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Medvedev facilitates salary recovery procedure for sailors

13:37 07/02/2012 President Dmitry Medvedev has endorsed Civil Code amendments giving Russian sailors an opportunity to recover their salaries and other due payments in courts at the defendant's ship location or at the ship's home port.

Photo: February 4: weekend rallies in central Moscow

11:51 07/02/2012 Over 160,000 people demonstrated in Moscow on Feb. 4.

Justice Ministry calls for tougher regulation of non-profit entities

15:22 06/02/2012 The Justice Ministry has proposed toughening legislation governing non-profit organizations and granting the authorities more power to inspect their business activities, Vladimir Titov, the head of its Non-Profit Organization Department.

Lawyers undecided on need for business commissioner

18:06 03/02/2012 Russia will have a commissioner to protect the rights of all businessmen – not only foreign investors, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. However, despite its supposed aim is to protect private capital, the initiative could produce side effects.

Putin: Russia will have businessmen's rights commissioner

16:23 02/02/2012 A businessmen's rights commissioner with a special procedural status will be established in Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.

Russia needs law to regulate taxpayer activity

15:13 02/02/2012 Mikhail Mishustin, the head of the Federal Tax Service, has called for adopting a special law regulating tax consultants' activity.

Russia's ex-Finance Minister critisizes judicial reform

14:55 02/02/2012 Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who retired after a disagreement with President Dmitry Medvedev, said the authorities have failed to improve the judicial system.

Russian sailors to obtain more rights to sue employers

14:10 01/02/2012 The Federation Council approved on Wednesday the bill allowing vessel crews to sue employers at the vessels' whereabouts rather than where the employer has a registered office.

Senators urge Putin to sign children's rights treaties

12:56 01/02/2012 The Federation Council requested on Wednesday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to take measures for Russia to sign in the first quarter of 2012 an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

Antimonopoly service allows Rio Tinto to deposit in Kamchatka

18:21 31/01/2012 The Federal Antimonopoly Service has satisfied the Rio Tinto mining company's application to acquire 100 percent of Olkhovoye's charter capital.

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Russia’s Ombudsman monitors situation around “AntiCOVID passports”

13:57 20/01/2021 The Office of Russia’s Rights Commissioner closely follows the situation and is ready to timely react not only to possible violations of citizens’ rights related to “AntiCOVID passports,” but also to other COVID-19-related issues.

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14:28 20/01/2021 The State Duma passed a Presidential bill prohibiting state and municipal officials to hold dual citizenship in the first reading on Wednesday.

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