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.