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Intellectual Property Laws Decree from July 12, 2003 "On Amendments and Additions to the Rules for Selling Isolated Types of Goods and to the Regulations for Licensing Reproduction (Manufacture of Copies) of Audiovisual Works and Phonograms of Any Media". Read

Customs Code of the Russian Federation from 28 May, 2003 No. 61-FZ (Enacted by the State Duma on 25 April, 2003; approved by the Federation Council on 14 May, 2003). View PDF Law of the Russian Federation of 23 September 1992 No. 3520-I "On Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin" (Amended on 27 December 2000, 30 December 2001, and 11 December 2002). View PDF Draft Amendments to the Federal Law "On Additions to Article 46 of the Federal Law "On Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin". Read Suggestions as to Amendments and Modifications to the Law of the Russian Federation "On Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations Of Origin" (chart format). Read Rules for the Recognition of a Trademark as Well Known in the Russian Federation. Read Patent Law of the Russian Federation No. 3517-1 Of September 23, 1992 (With The Amendments And Additions Of December 27, 2000, December 30, 2001, February 7, 2003). View PDF Proposed Changes and Additions to The Patent Law of The Russian Federation (chart format). Read

Country Background: Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the 300-year old Romanov Dynasty. The Communists under Vladimir LENIN seized power soon after and formed the USSR. The brutal rule of Josef STALIN (1928-53) strengthened Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. The Soviet economy and society stagnated in the following decades until General Secretary Mikhail GORBACHEV (1985-91) introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism, but his initiatives inadvertently released forces that by December 1991 splintered the USSR into 15 independent republics. Since then, Russia has struggled in its efforts to build a democratic political system and market economy to replace the strict social, political, and economic controls of the Communist period. A determined guerrilla conflict still plagues Russia in Chechnya.

For more facts and statistics on Russia see the CIA World Fact Book.