Morgan Lewis Spark is a quarterly update highlighting new and amended Russian legislation of importance to companies operating in the Russian energy and mining sectors. We hope it provides you with a useful tool to navigate these developments. There was a lot of new legislation introduced in the second quarter of 2021.

Russia adopted its first-ever law on greenhouse gas emissions and introduced major amendments to the Subsoil Law (effective from 2022). This period was also marked by legislative developments in respect of gas, LNG, power and renewables.