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Senate passes Graham sanctions act, shifting Russia pressure from policy to statute
Editor’s Note: Mandatory sanctions drafting just cleared the Senate, 27 days after the death of the senator whose name it carries. The 86-11 passage of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act on Aug. 7 would put Russia designations and tariff duties on 30-day statutory clocks, tempered by presidential waivers, rate discretion and...
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The cancelled buy-back: Federal Law No. 319-FZ and the departing seller’s option: Compensation at the court’s discretion
On 4 August 2026, the President of the Russian Federation signed Federal Law No. 319-FZ, which inserts a new Article 20.1 into the Federal Law on Foreign Investments and allows a Russian court to cancel the buy-back option that many departing foreign investors took in place of a market price when they left Russia after...
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Three accounts from one wartime morning in Russia
Editor’s Note: Three claims about one morning near Omsk reached the public record on Aug. 2, and the Institute for the Study of War relayed all three without reconciling them. Elsewhere in the same assessment ISW cited geolocated footage. For Omsk it did not, and that one distinction carried the whole claim. Cybersecurity, information governance...
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Navigating Chaos, Corruption and Murder in Post-Soviet Russia
On the latest episode of Bad News, Good Lawyers, host Tom Firestone welcomes Jamison Firestone (no relation), founder of the first independent foreign law firm in post-Soviet Russia. Drawing on stories from his new book, Rule of Lies: My Wild Ride Through Chaos, Corruption, and Murder in Putin’s Russia, Jamison describes his experiences in early...
- Specifics Of Taxation Of Electronic Services In Russia
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GDPR Audit in 2026: Assessment of Technical and Organisational Measures
Тoday, personal data simultaneously exists within products, cloud infrastructure, analytics services, CRM systems, correspondence, spreadsheets, artificial intelligence models, and integrations with external services. A GDPR audit should reveal not only what a company declares, but also what actually happens to personal data within its systems, processes, and the day-to-day work of its teams. Why the...
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The week the war reached Russia’s e-commerce supply chain
Editor’s Note: Warehouses that fill Russia’s online shopping orders burned this week, and those fires say as much about the direction of the war as any map of the front. Between July 15 and July 18, Ukrainian strikes reached e-commerce logistics hubs, shadow fleet tankers, refineries and, by Kyiv’s account, a strategic bomber, while Moscow’s...
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The three silent hours: How Russia’s cyber war targets Ukraine’s newsrooms
Editor’s Note: Russia’s summer offensive has stalled on the ground, so the Kremlin has shifted weight to the layer where it still moves freely: information. In the first week of July, as missiles hit Kyiv and diplomats gathered for a NATO summit in Turkey, Russian operators kept a parallel campaign running against the systems that...
- DEERMA Trademark Dispute Ends In Partial Win For Applicant
- Russian Court Refuses Recognition And Enforcement Of LCIA Awards Against RUSAL On Public Order Grounds
