Svetlana London and Valeria Ivasikh of CIS London & Partners LLP have attended Russian Midlands Business Club’s “Success in Russia” seminar on 23 March in Birmingham, where Svetlana addressed the audience with an overview of Russia and other CIS countries’ legal framework.

In particular, Svetlana touched on Russia’s recent data protection and media ownership restrictions, as well as the more general matters of ongoing civil law reform and legal due diligence of Russian companies.