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On 1 March 2001, the Russian Ministry of Finance issued a decree concerning the taxation of advertising. The new tax schedule provides that the total amount of actual advertising expenses to be included for purposes of taxation in the prime cost of production (production costs, costs of materials and labour, which are not subject to profit taxes) shall not exceed a maximum rate of 7.5 percent; previously the amount was 5 percent. That means that a company can now spend 50 percent more money on advertising without additional tax. The Decree came into force on 1 April 2001.

On 4 April 2001, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, signed two decrees regarding cinematography. The first Decree, "on reorganization of federal state film studios", aims at: (a) restructuring the cinematography industry; (b) guaranteeing the efficiency of film studio production; (c) safeguarding public interests; (d) observing the copyright law. In order to achieve these objectives, the reorganization of the federal state's film studios will be carried out by singling out of a certain number of state enterprises, which will then be restructured in the form of joint-stock...

At its plenary session of 8 February 2001, the State Duma of the Russian Federation considered the draft law on the amendments to Article 11 of the Russian Federation Law "On Advertising". The draft law, which was submitted to the State Duma by the Astrakhan Regional Representative Assembly, makes alterations to paragraph 1 of Article 11 of the Russian Federation Law "On Advertising" (1995) by totally prohibiting the interruption of educational programs, radio shows and feature films by advertisements. In the current version of the Law, advertising during broadcasts of radio shows or feature films...

On 25 September 2000, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered a complaint that had been lodged regarding the Decree regulating the implementation on the so-called Operational-Investigative Activity on telephone, mobile, wireless connection and personal radio communication network (SORM), issued by the Ministry for Communication and Informatization (see IRIS 2000-8: 11). The complainant Pavel Neptunskiy asserts that under the Decree, neither service providers nor supervising bodies can check who is subject to eavesdropping and what is the volume of security services' activity in...

On 5 August this year, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, signed a new Act, adding two new paragraphs to Section 41 of the 1991 Zakon o sredstvach massovoj informazii (Mass Media Act), the second time this year that new prohibitions have been added to the Act (see IRIS 2000-7: 14). New paragraphs 3 and 4 of Section 41 of the Mass Media Act ban the dissemination in the mass media of information that identifies, directly or indirectly, a juvenile offender or victim of crime officially recognised as such during a criminal investigation or court proceedings. The only exception...