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Decisions of the Constitutional Court, Plenum Resolutions, and thematic reviews of the Supreme Court — in each analysis, every reference to a paragraph, article, or case is clickable and opens the verbatim text. New analyses are added as the database expands.
Termination of a case on limitation grounds does not bar protection of the victim: the right to appeal, access to the case materials, a civil claim, and compensation for violation of the reasonable time limit are preserved.
Open analysis →The provisions were held unconstitutional because of uncertainty: the increased coefficients were introduced for the preferential 0.3 percent rate and cannot automatically be extended to the standard rate.
Open analysis →The restriction was held constitutional: open procedures entail free access to information about experience, which is incompatible with the protection of state secrets.
Open analysis →An application may not be returned on the grounds that the legal description of the act is incomplete or that it lacks information unavailable to the victim; a decision to return it must state reasons.
Open analysis →Reaching adulthood does not preclude an action to terminate parental rights if the parent committed a crime against the applicant; the applicant’s position may not be worse than that of an adoptee.
Open analysis →Article 22.1 of the Law on State Cadastral Valuation is unconstitutional insofar as it deprives a taxpayer of the possibility of establishing an archived value equal to the market value; pending amendments, an interim procedure applies.
Open analysis →The absence of information about unremedied violations creates a rebuttable presumption of good faith; a refusal is possible in cases of systematic or serious violations, including violations on other plots.
Open analysis →Readings from premises with “cold” conditions are not transferred to premises without metering devices; the volume for those premises is calculated as the difference between the building-wide meter and the individual meters.
Open analysis →27 positions from Thematic Review No. 14/2026 of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation: dismissal due to loss of trust, expenditure monitoring, and confiscation of property for state revenue when income information is not submitted. Each item includes a link to the primary source.
Open analysis →32 positions from Thematic Review No. 13/2026 of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation: criteria for unauthorized structures, demolition and legalization, the dacha amnesty, rights to public lands, and unauthorized extensions to apartment buildings. Each item includes a link to the primary source.
Open analysis →33 positions from Thematic Review No. 11/2026 of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation: lands of specially protected natural areas, the forest fund, defense lands, and other categories withdrawn from or restricted in civil circulation. Each item includes a link to the primary source.
Open analysis →The municipality’s duty to clear unallocated land near a forest of dry grass and create mineralized firebreaks is a state authority; a fine under Part 3 of Article 8.32 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation is possible only if that authority was transferred by law together with funding.
Open analysis →Thematic Review No. 12/2026 of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation: challenging transactions resulting in the transfer of title to housing — defects of consent (Articles 177–179 of the Civil Code), challenges in bankruptcy, and state registration of rights. Each item includes a link to the primary source.
Open analysis →32 positions from Thematic Review No. 9/2026 of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation: classification and origin of goods, customs value, goods for personal use, exemptions, VAT on imports, default interest, and liability. Each item includes a link to the primary source.
Open analysis →Limits on ordering pretrial detention in absentia for an accused person who has absconded. Criminal procedure.
Open analysis →Classification of business fraud where the victim is a company with state participation. Criminal law.
Open analysis →The point from which the increased recycling fee applies. Protection of reliance on the law.
Open analysis →Municipal liability for mortgaged escheated property. Inheritance and budget law.
Open analysis →Ensuring the exercise of powers transferred to the constituent entities to protect forests. Forest Code and budget law.
Open analysis →22 positions from the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation’s Thematic Review No. 8/2026: voidness of transactions circumventing the Government Commission’s approval, anti-suit injunctions, and the jurisdiction of commercial courts over sanctions disputes. Each item includes a link to the primary source.
Open analysis →The platform must suspend display of the disputed listing upon a reasoned request from the rights holder. Plus two rulings of the Judicial Chamber for Economic Disputes of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.
Open analysis →Calculation of the time limit for bringing claims regarding defects in goods. Article 477 of the Civil Code, consumer protection.
Open analysis →Assignment of rights under a lease agreement for a publicly owned land plot granted on preferential terms. Land law, Article 22 of the Land Code.
Open analysis →Transfer of a land plot owned by the unified development institution (DOM.RF) to local self-government is permitted only with a guarantee that the costs of development will be compensated. Land law, housing construction.
Open analysis →What is changing in the preparation of civil cases for trial. Analysis of Resolution No. 15 of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Civil procedure.
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