PhD Business Administration,
the Chief of the Kimry representative office of the Tver Bar

Case Notes and Materials

Art Law

Some Rules of the National Legislature with Export Artworks from Russia
December 2010
In Russia law, a works of art are treated as being personal moveable property and the ones are objects of civil rights and may be freely alienated or be transferred from one person to another by way of universal legal succession (inheritance) or by other means unless they have been withdrawn from turnover or are limited in turnover (point 1 Article 129 Civil Code).The matters of the ownership of the copyright in artworks are regulated by the Part IV of the Civil Code...

Mr. Shipcov’s Detention Case Story

05 September 2011
Mr. Shipcov has been charged of attempt to commit a robbery and he was arrested on the 23 June 2011. The criminal case # 180340 in related to Mr. Shipcov has been probed by the Investigation Office of the Tver Police Department (Russia).
Mr. Shipcov is disabled since one of his eyes is blind and the other one’s ability is very weak, he isn’t able both read and write by own. Therefore according to the Regulation # 3 “On medical examination of criminal suspects and accused” enacted by Russian Parliament on 14th January 2011, Mr. Shipsov must be placed to the Tver Oblast Hospital for medical examination and the prosecuting authorities must get a medical consequence with regard to possibility of his detention before he had been taken to court. The dictates of the Regulation # 3 have not been executed. They do knowingly have debared Mr. Shipsov from medical examination till nowadays...