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Russian Law News - Analysis of major changes in Russian legislation affecting business and investment activities. Publications and Internet links. Maintained by the Moscow office of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P.
Russian Tax and Legal Center - News and commentaries on various areas of Russian legislation related to business and finance. Access to certain materials requires a fee-based subscription. Maintained by CONSECO. Languages: English, Russian.
Federal Institute of Industrial Property - Databases of patents, utility models and trade marks registered with the Russian Patent Agency. Abstracts of Russian Patented Inventions, 1994-2000 can be searched for free. Subscription is required for other databases. Languages: English, Russian.
Kodeks - Karelia - A database of legal information provided by Kodeks. Includes international, Russian and Karelian documents in Russian.
Information Disclosure Program - A searchable database of information on Russian securities issuers and issues. Overview of relevant legal requirements. Maintained by the Federal Commission for the Securities Market.
Legal System of Russia - Short summaries on judicial review, legal profession and powers of relevant government agencies.
Ernst & Young: Russian Legislation - A comprehensive and fully searchable collection of English translations of Russian legislation (free registration is granted at the discretion of the site owner); analysis of major changes in Russian tax legislation; daily news on legislative changes.
The Legislation in Russia - An official database of Russian legislation maintained by the Federal agency of government communication and information. Only introductory pages are in English, search interface and texts of documents are in Russian.
Russian Legal Server - A tutorial on Russian legal research; links to publications and legal commentaries; news and announcements related to Russian law.
St. Petersburg Civil Law Center - Commentaries on major developments in Russian civil law, book reviews authored by faculty members of the Civil Law Department of St. Peterburg University Law School. Forum discussions of hot legal topics.
Material on Russian Federation Law in English - Citations and links compiled by Lucy Cox and published on llrx.com.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide: News from Russia - A critical legal analysis of Russian law on freedom of conscience and on religious associations.
Garant: Legislation with Comments - Information on the company and its services, including the Garant database of Russian legislation translated into English. Free daily summaries of new legislation.
Intelcom Internet Club - Focuses on legal protection and commercial use of intellectual property. Includes a database of relevant Russian legislation in English (free registration is required to access full texts), news, glossary of specialized terms and analytical reports.
Constitutional Court - Constitution of the Russian Federation, the law on Constitutional Court, summaries of and some full-text Court's rulings in English posted on the official website of the Court.
Rospantent: Legislation - Translations on several laws on patents, trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property rights posted on the website of the Russian Patent Office.
Legislationline.org: Russian Federation - Overview of Russian political and legislative system. Access to full-text translations of legal acts on citizenship, elections and human rights from the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
CESNUR, Center for Studies of New Religions: Russian Federation - Translation of the Federal Law On Freedom of Conscience and on Religious Associations by Kenston Institute.
The Constitution of the Russian Federation - Full text English translation.
Democracy.Ru: Russian Election Laws - English-language of the most important Russian laws on elections and political parties done by International Foundation for Election Systems.
Global Banking Law Database - Translations of Russian laws on Banks and Banking Activity, Insolvency of Credit Institutions, and the Central Bank from the database maintained by the World Bank and IMF.
Internews Russia: Laws of The Russian Federation - English translations of several basic laws on the media, telecommunications and advertisement. Commentaries prepared on legal issues in the media sector prepared by the Moscow Media Law and Policy Center.
Legal Regulation of Business in Russia - A database of English translations of Russian legislation provided by Kodeks Legal Information Service. Access to texts is limited to subscribers.
Legislation of the Russian Federation on Architecture - English versions of the Federal Law on Architectural Activity and Basis of Agreement between the Russian Union of Architects and the Architects Council of Europe. Provided by the Russian Union of Architects.
On Further Development of Investment Fund Activity - Downloadable text of Presidential Decree of 23 February 1998 from the Corporate Governance in Russian website.
The Russian Law on "Trophy Art" - The original text, a summary and English translation of the Russian Federal Law on Cultural Valuables Displaced to the U.S.S.R. as a Result of World War II and Located on the Territory of the Russian Federation.
Russian Medial Law Sources - Translations of Russian laws on media, telecommunications and advertisement from the Moscow Media Law and Policy Institute.
Russkaya Pravda - An English translation of the short version of the earliest Russian written legal code.
theRussiaSite.org: Russian Laws in Translation - Russian Constitution, laws on judiciary, selected rulings of the Russian Constitutional Court and other documents translated by John Fowler. Links to other translations on the web.
[Maritime Space: Maritime Zones and Maritime Delimitation -] Russian Federation - This database contains a list of Russian national legislation and Russia's international agreements on sea boundaries with access to full texts in most cases.
Privatization Link Russia - Laws and Regulations - A collection of legal commentaries and full-text legislation. Includes both federal and regional documents that can be sorted by region or by subject.
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Law You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln Law "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Law They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous Law There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie Law Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Law "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Law All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous Law "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Law Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Law Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Law If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Law He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Law Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Law Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Law Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein Law The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Law "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Law "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Law "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Law Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Law Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Law
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