You may have noticed that our new website, kkmp.legal, which we launched recently, features a major update to our pro bono section—“KKMP Without Borders.” This isn’t just a new name or a redesign of the webpage—we’ve literally “reorganized” our pro bono activities and highlighted their social, cultural, and technological dimensions.
Today we’d like to tell you about one of the projects in our “KKMP Without Borders” program. In recent months, the KKMP team has been supporting an initiative by the charity “Light in Your Hands.” It is participating in T-Bank’s “Course of Good” project and raising funds to establish an expert center for early diagnosis and fetal surgery in the Far East. The center will open at the Primorsky Regional Perinatal Center with the participation of the Federal National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology. Through the end of May, T-Bank is matching its clients’ donations to “Light in Hands.”
Today, a significant portion of high-tech care for severe fetal conditions is concentrated in a few federal centers. For families in the Far East, this often means thousands of kilometers of air travel, limited time, and the need to make extremely difficult decisions in a matter of days. The project aims not merely to organize individual medical visits or purchase equipment, but to build a sustainable regional infrastructure: training specialists, developing early diagnosis, introducing fetal surgery practices, and establishing a center of expertise where such care is most needed.
For us, this project proved interesting not only for its social significance but also for the number of complex legal issues that had to be resolved literally “at the intersection” of several areas of law.
How should the participation of the federal medical center and regional clinics be structured? Where does the line between medical activities and educational events lie? How should the rights to the educational and informational materials being created be formalized? How can the requirements of legislation on medical practice, intellectual property, personal data, and the designated use of donations be reconciled?
Legal support for the activities of the “Light in Your Hands” Foundation under the “Course of Goodness” program is provided by the KKMP team led by partner Anna Maksimenko. Also participating in the work are counsel Ekaterina Sharapova, senior associates Violetta Drondina and Elvira Khasanova, and associate Samvel Vartanyan.
Projects like these embody “KKMP Without Borders”—when the law helps overcome not only legal but sometimes quite literal boundaries: between regions, and between advanced medical expertise and the people who truly need it.
