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If you plan to start a business in Belarus, you should consider the changes in the issues of approving the names of legal entities, state registration, termination of activities of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, maintaining the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs of the Republic of Belarus (hereinafter – “EGR”), provided for by the Resolution No. 96 of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus, dated June 18, 2020 (hereinafter – the “Resolution”).

Welcome to our newsletter with a selection of news and the most important regional updates for Russia & the CIS for August 2020. Hope you will find our news useful for your business!

On March 25, during a televised address Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned that a revision with the Double Taxation Treaties (hereinafter – the “Treatу / Treaties”) with those jurisdictions would be required which are used for the inadequate transfer of income from Russia.

Even before the disorder began, Belarus was considered an unattractive place for foreign companies’ business. This is unreasonable, says Ulf Schneider, who helps companies to enter the Belarusian market, in a conversation about Belarusian business culture.

On June 30, a webinar “Online Courts: A New Session Format” took place, during which SCHNEIDER GROUP experts talked about how online sessions are held, whether the rules of online litigation appeared in Ukraine and Kazakhstan in connection with the pandemic.