On March 20, 2026, the Bank of Russia decided to lower the key rate by 50 bps to 15% per annum. 

The Bank of Russia has extended restrictions on outbound transfers of funds by non-residents from hostile countries from accounts held with Russian brokers and trust managers.

The Bank of Russia recommends that banks proactively contact clients - without waiting for inquiries - after suspending transactions or remote banking services under cybersecurity and anti-money laundering legislation.

The Russian Government has supplemented the action plan for the implementation of the Strategy of State Policy of Russia in the Area of Consumer Rights Protection for the Period up to 2030. Among other things, a dispute resolution mechanism will be created that provides for subsidiary liability of the marketplace operator in the event that a consumer purchases a product of inadequate quality from a foreign seller.

Unified rules for labelling certain types of confectionery products have been established in the EAEU countries. These include, in particular, chocolate, dry biscuits, jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, and wafers.

Starting from April 1, 2026, a test run of the National System for Confirming the Expectation of Goods (in Russian, also known as SPOT system) will be introduced. 

The obligation of non-profit organisations to submit annual reports to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation is established, in particular, by Article 32 of the Law on Non-Profit Organisations, Article 29 of the Law on Public Associations, Article 19 of the Law on Charitable Activities and Volunteering and some other laws.

On 18 March 2026, the State Duma passed in the first reading a draft law that would prohibit the use of any images (representations) of people in campaign materials, including fictional or deceased individuals, as well as images generated using information technologies, with the sole exception of images of candidates themselves.

Individuals can now file complaints against creditors and debt collectors on the portal of government services. 

The service allows to find out whether the version of an electronic document submitted for verification is up to date. That is, if after certifying a digital document, the notary made changes to it to correct technical errors, the system will return the corresponding result. To check on the resource page, you must enter the document's registration number, the name of the notary who certified it, and the date of certification.

The Bank of Russia announces that restrictions on foreign currency cash withdrawals will remain in effect until September 9, 2026. 

The Russian Government has approved a methodology for calculating indicators of the Russian Federation's financial sovereignty: 

On March 1, 2026, the following amendments to the Federal Aviation Regulations came into force:

Mandatory labelling of meat products (sausages and similar food products made from meat, offal and blood of animals, from meat and offal of poultry) packaged in consumer packaging has been introduced. These products are currently labelled on an experimental basis. Mandatory labelling will be introduced in stages for certain types of goods from August 1 and October 1, 2026. For farm households, requirements for labelling meat and sausage products will come into effect on October 1, 2026.

The ‘Gosuslugi’ web-portal has launched a new service - that is so called ‘Trusted Contact’ - aimed at improving citizens’ digital security and protecting their personal data.

According to the Bank of Russia, the level of officials of a financial institution controlled by the board of directors (supervisory board) is determined by the financial institution independently (with the exception of those officials who are accountable to the board by virtue of legal requirements). The Central Bank does not limit a financial institution in its ability to expand the list of issues and decisions over which the board of directors (supervisory board) exercises control). 

Categories of foreign nationals subject to registration have been expanded, including: 

The Federal Service for Financial Monitoring has established the amount of sums, above which transactions with cash and non-cash funds carried out in real estate transactions are subject to mandatory control. The corresponding values are differentiated depending on the type of organisations carrying out such operations:

Legal entities and individual businessmen may engage in the mining of digital currency from the moment they are included into the relevant register of persons. To do this, they should submit an application through the special ‘Mining Register’ service on the website of the Federal Tax Service.

Starting from March 1, 2026, new measures to combat internet criminals have come into force:

The Bank of Russia has developed a standard containing principles and recommendations for implementing the OpenID Connect (OIDC) protocol through open application programming interfaces (OAPIs) using an extended API security profile, ensuring a high level of trust in identification and authentication when transmitting financial information. It will be implemented on October 1, 2026, and is intended for: 

For non-credit financial companies, it has been decided to adjust the requirements for information protection when operating in the financial markets.