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. 

The regulator reminds that, from August 1, 2025, the Civil Code of the Russian Federation expressly provides for the need to obtain the consent of legal representatives (parents, adoptive parents, or guardians) to open a bank account for minors aged 14 to 18 years.

The Bank of Russia's website will provide generalised information on the ownership structure of financial institutions. It is planned to abandon the disclosure of identification data of participants in the ownership structure and information about the relationships between them, and to move to the disclosure of information about the ownership structure through a set of impersonal criteria.

An entity that is part of a group whose financial statements do not have a wide range of interested users or independent material significance for users may be permitted not to prepare consolidated financial statements.

On February 13, 2026, the Bank of Russia decided to cut the key rate by 50 basic points to 15.5% per annum.

New recommendations have been issued for protecting application software for automated systems and applications of credit and non-credit financial institutions. They are intended for software developers, for applicants for product certification, as well as for certification bodies and assessors involved in certifying software for compliance with information security requirements, including requirements for vulnerability analysis and monitoring the absence of undeclared capabilities.

On September 1, 2026, legislative amendments regarding domain name registration will take effect. Domain names will be registered by Russian legal entities included into a special list. Domain names of government agencies, local governments, unitary enterprises, institutions, state-owned companies, and public-law entities will be registered by non-profit organisations included into the government list. 

To implement these amendments, a draft government decision has been prepared defining the rules for domain name registration, requirements, terms of use, and timeframes.

The rules for recognising IFRS and international auditing standards for application in Russia have been adjusted. 

The list of such examinations approved by the Russian Government has been expanded. 

Organisations must pay property taxes (transport and land taxes, property tax) for 2025 no later than March 2, 2026. The deadline is postponed from February 28 to the next working day.

The procedure for establishing the compliance of a critical information infrastructure facility in the banking sector and other areas of the financial market with the criteria of significance and indicators of their values for assigning it one of the categories of significance has been approved, as well as the procedure for calculating the values of the indicators of the criteria of significance, taking into account the specific features of the functioning of the facility.

It is planned to amend the licensing procedure for activities related to the development and production of confidential information protection tools.

New rules for marking fur products with identification means have been approved. They will replace the 2016 rules.

New guidelines for filling in statistical reports in accordance with Form ‘Information on the Number of Employees and Their Wages’ have entered into force. The form itself has not changed.

The Federal Tax Service informs that an update has been introduced to the service for assessing legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, expanding the tool's functionality. The update is aimed at providing a targeted approach to the analysis of users' financial and economic activities.

Confirmation of force majeure circumstances in foreign trade transactions is carried out by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia, and authorised chambers of commerce and industry certify force majeure circumstances within the framework of contractual relations between Russian legal entities and individual entrepreneurs.

The draft law was developed to implement Ruling of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 47-P of December 22, 2025, which allowed victims of telephone fraud to file claims for the return of illegally withdrawn funds at their place of residence.

The experiment allowing foreign nationals to register via the RuID app is supposed to be extended until the end of 2027.

Several new International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are supposed to come into force in Russia, including the following:

The State Duma adopted in the first reading draft amendments to the Criminal Code regarding criminal liability for unlawful interference with critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation. 

The procedure for preparing an application to reissue a subsoil use license and for compiling the documents required for this procedure has been revised. Certain provisions have been removed - including those requiring that, with respect to a foreign person, an analogue of the taxpayer identification number (TIN) under the legislation of the relevant foreign state shall specified.

The period for conducting an experiment on providing a comprehensive service for state registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, issuing them a certified certificate for the verification key of an electronic signature, opening a current account and concluding a remote banking service agreement has been extended until March 1, 2027. 

The Russian Ministry of Labour and Employment has drafted a new list of jobs where the employment of persons under 18 years of age is prohibited. Currently, a government-approved list is in force.

Since January 9, the Federal Financial Monitoring Service has been authorised to determine the amount above which a transaction involving cash or non-cash funds carried out in a real estate transaction is subject to mandatory control. The corresponding value cannot be less than five million roubles.

The Federal Tax Service reports that the new "My OKVED" service, located on the Service's website, will help accurately select application type codes based on the business's planned activities.

The Bank of Russia has prepared clarifications for credit institutions regarding currency control for money transfers using the Faster Payment System (also known as SBP).

A procedure has been established for confirming compliance with technical regulations for e-commerce goods imported into the EAEU for sale to individuals. 

By 15 April 2026, all manufacturers and importers of goods and packaging included into the government-approved list are required to pay the environmental fee. Companies must also submit to Rosprirodnadzor reports on the weight of goods and packaging, information on independent waste recycling (if carried out), and calculations of the fee payable.

100% of the shares in the authorised capital of ROCKWOOL limited liability company, owned by ROCKWOOL A/S, and 68% of the shares in the authorised capital of ROCKWOOL-VOLGA LLC, owned by ROCKWOOL A/S, were transferred to the temporary management of Razvitie Stroitelnykh Aktivov joint stock company.

The Ministry of Finance excluded the United Arab Emirates from:

From January 12 to October 31, 2026, an experiment on labelling dairy and canned baby food products will be held in Russia (for children under three years of age and under one year of age, respectively).

For e-commerce goods purchased by individuals imported into the EAEU, a uniform customs duty rate of 5% of their value, but no less than 1 euro per kg, has been established. Certain goods are exempt, including passenger cars, motor vehicles equipped for residential use, motorcycles, mopeds, etc. The rates for these goods have been specified. 

The Bank of Russia has developed a standard containing principles and approaches common to all open API specifications applied to data exchange through open programming interfaces. It is intended for then following persons: 

- for participants in the exchange of information about financial products, accounts, and other user financial instruments, as well as related information; 

- for developers of information technology and software. 

The standard enters into force on October 1, 2026.

The special procedure for decision-taking by bodies of some Russian organisations has been extended until the end of 2026. In particular, large companies in the energy, engineering and trade sectors can take corporate actions without taking into account the votes of co-owners from unfriendly countries.

A new wording of the methodological document "Profile for Protecting Application Software of Automated Systems and Applications of Credit Institutions and Non-Credit Financial Institutions" has been approved. 

The Bank of Russia has specified the composition of information that is not subject to mandatory publication by the Bank of Russia itself, as well as by credit institutions, foreign banks operating in Russia through branches, non-credit financial companies, entities providing professional services in the financial market, and subjects of the national payment system, on their websites in 2026.

As specified on the Russian Government's website, the simplified procedure shall apply to obtaining notifications for smartphones, tablets, laptops, computers, microchips, and radios. Typically, to obtain notification for importing such devices or equipment into Russia, their manufacturer must file an application with the authorised organisation - the Center for Licensing, Certification, and Protection of State Secrets of the FSB of Russia. The simplified procedure allows notifications to be issued by industry associations.

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