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The Civil Code of the Russian Federation

The Civil Code of the Russian Federation

Russian Business Law by A. Shashkova

The present book gives an overview of Russian business law. The book presents in detail information on the following matters: the Russian legal system, the subjects of law, law of contract, non-contractual obligations, property rights, company law, labour and employment law and legal status of foreign persons in the Russian Federation.

The book is directed to Russian and foreign lawyers, heads of legal entities, financial directors, chief accountants, auditors, using English, and to any person, interested in Russian business law.

Useful Sources of Information

Government resources
www.kremlin.ru/ – Official presidential site
www.gov.ru/ – Official governmental portal (Russian)
www.duma.ru – Official site of the parliamentary lower house (Russian)
www.council.gov.ru/eng/index.html – Official site of the parliamentary upper house
www.cbr.ru – Central Bank of Russia
www.economy.gov.ru/wps/portal/english – Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
http://www.rost.ru/ – National Priority Projects

Associations and business groups
www.amcham.ru – The American Chamber of Commerce in Russia
www.rbcc.com – The Russo-British Chamber of Commerce
www.aebrus.ru/ – The Association of European Businesses
www.rspp.ru/ – The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
http://eng.tpprf.ru/ – The Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
www.invest2russia.com; www.b2russia.ru – project aimed at facilitating investment exchange between Russia and global investors

Other
www.waytorussia.net/ – Independent guide to Russia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1102275.stm – BBC country profile

Business Law by J.D. Emerson Robert W.

Both students and persons actively engaged in business will find simple, understandable explanations of subjects related to business law and the legal environment. An opening chapter discusses the origin and nature of law. Chapters that follow cover contracts in their many forms, negotiable instruments, banking procedures, types of business organization, legal definitions of crimes and torts, the concept of property, environmental law, labor-management relations law, intellectual property and computer law, and much more. The newly expanded and updated. Business Review books are designed for classroom use, but are also valuable as self-teaching volumes for businesspersons engaged in various fields. When used in college business courses, these titles make fine supplements to main textbooks. Instructors in adult education and brush-up programs often choose these books as their main classroom text. Each title includes review questions with answers.

Guide to doing business in Russia

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Law and Legal System of the Russian Federation

This book is a detailed treatment of the Russian legal system written especially for English-speaking law students and lawyers. While it is designed primarily as a casebook, it will also be useful as a reference for scholars specializing in Russian and East European area studies and for lawyers bound for practice in Russia.

The cooperation of U.S. lawyers who are specialists in Russian law and a Russian lawyer assure that the book retains all the subtleties of Russian law, while presenting a frame of reference and approach familiar to the American law student and lawyer.

A number of changes have taken place in the Russian Federation since the publication of the 2nd Edition. The 3rd Edition of The Law and Legal System of the Russian Federation contains the following new material:

Changes in the law and case decisions of the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court and Supreme Arbitrazh Court through July 2004

New chapters on Administrative Law and Tax law

Civil Law chapter covers adoption of the Land Code, which allowed Ch. 17 of the Civil Code on private land ownership to be put into effect

Major reorganization and expansion of the judicial system chapter to cover the jurisdictional battle between the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court New Civil Procedure, Arbitrazh Procedure and Criminal Procedure Codes are covered in detail Complete revision of the Constitutional Law chapter to reflect changes in federalism under President Putin Inclusion of the important Supreme Court cases on enforcement of foreign court and arbitral judgments in Russia in the Private International Law chapter An improved index that provides page cites for definitions of important terms.

About the Author
William Burnham, Professor Law, Wayne State University and Senior Associate, University of Michigan Center for Russian-East European Studies.

Peter B. Maggs, Clifford M. & Bette A. Carney Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law.

Gennady Danilenko, Late Professor of Law, Wayne State University; Institute of State and Law, Academy of Sciences, Moscow.