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On 16 March 2007 the State Duma adopted and on 9 April 2007 the President Vladimir Putin signed into law the Statute which amended Articles 146 and 180 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The Statute enters into legal force on the day of its publication Article 146 of the Criminal Code covers liability with regard to a number of violations of copyright and neighbouring rights; Article 180 punishes illegal use of registered trade marks, service marks and names of the place of origin of goods, or similar designations for homogeneous goods. The new law has modified provisions concerning...

On 12 March 2007, the President of the Russian Federation issued a Decree regulating the status of the new authority - the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Mass Communications, Telecommunications and Protection of Cultural Heritage. The new Service shall be organised on the basis of two different bodies: one authorised to supervise in the sphere of mass communications and protection of cultural heritage, and another authorised to supervise in the telecommunications sphere. The Service shall also obtain some additional powers handed over from other administrative bodies functioning...

On 20 September 2006 the State Duma of the Russian Federation approved in the first reading the bill on Part Four of the Civil Code which relates to the regulation of different aspects of intellectual property. It passed the 2nd reading on 8 November 2006 and the 3rd reading on 24 November 2006. The adoption of Part Four is regarded as the completion of codification of intellectual property legislation and civil legislation as a whole. The incorporation of the norms dealing with intellectual property in the Civil Code is justified by the traditions of the development of civil legislation in Russia....

On 17 November 2006 the State Duma (Parliament) adopted the Statute amending provisions of both the Statute “On basic guaranties of the electoral rights and the right to participate in a referendum of citizens of the Russian Federation” (hereinafter - the Elections Statute) and the Code of Civil Procedure. On 5 December 2006, President Vladimir Putin signed the act. It entered into force on 7 December 2006, the date of its official publication. The leitmotif of the Statute is to enforce counter-extremist activities. However, some other important issues concerning electoral campaigning in the mass...

On 29 July 2006 a new Federal Statute “On Personal Data” was adopted (it will come into force on 25 January 2007). This was done to comply with the international obligations of the Russian Federation, since in January 2006 Russia ratified the European Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (signed in Strasbourg on 28 January 1981). The problem of personal data protection had been discussed in Russia since 1997 when the first draft law was worked out. In 1999 the Model Statute on Personal Data of the Commonwealth of Independent States was...