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Consumer Bankruptcy. Practical Approach (in Russian)

12 July 2023 "The Law" Magazine, June 2023

The article briefly highlights the results of seven years of consumer bankruptcy, analyzes the problem of classifying citizens as honest and bona fide debtors. The author analyzes the practice of refusing to discharge debts due to a significant amount of claims against the debtor or a consistent increase in debt to creditors in the absence of the required level of income, as an independent basis for refusing to discharge debts and comes to the conclusion that the balanced approach proposed by the Supreme Court helps prevent indiscriminate failures. The author examines and highlights key points of the precedent ruling of the Supreme Court on the issues of malicious evasion of repayment of debts.

Alexander Popelyuk
Partner

Russia: New package of emergency legislation measures

21 July 2020 Eurofenix, the journal of INSOL Europe, July 2020

During the COVID-19 crisis, Russian regulators implemented a package of emergency legislation including measures referring to the insolvency law. The law was published on 1 April 2020, and on 3 April the Government exercised its right to introduce a 6-month moratorium on initiating bankruptcy proceedings for certain categories of debtors. 

Alexander Popelyuk
Partner