On 19 August 2011, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation published on its official website a draft order on establishing the procedure for entering information on bankruptcies in the Unified Federal Register (the "Order").

Specifically, the Order:

On 10 August 2012, the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation (the “SCC”) published a decree clarifying disputes relating to suretyships (the “Decree”). The Decree has not been significantly amended since the draft was published in February 2012 and analysed in the March edition of the Legal Digest.

We would like to note several important positions included in the SCC’s Decree:

On 9 August 2011, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation published a draft law aimed at increasing the effectiveness of protecting first and second priority creditor rights (the "Draft Law").

Specifically, the Draft Law: