As part of a special issue on corporate law, the analytical portal Pravo.ru presented an overview of key changes in civil legislation taking effect this year.
One of the key topics of the issue was the amendments regarding the time limits for deprivatization. On June 10, 2026, Law No. 167 took effect, limiting the statute of limitations for claims to ten years from the date the asset was removed from state ownership. Once this period has expired, the court is required to dismiss the claim. Exceptions are made for cases involving corruption, extremism, terrorism, foreign investments in strategic companies, and the return of church property.
Dmitry Raev, an counsel to the KKMP, noted that the rule stipulating that the statute of limitations cannot exceed ten years from the date of the violation was already enshrined in Part 2 of Article 196 of the Civil Code. The new version of Article 217 of the Civil Code essentially reiterates this rule, but with an emphasis on claims related to the reversal of privatization.
It is possible that plaintiffs and courts will continue to attempt to circumvent the ten-year statute of limitations in various ways, as in cases where courts have deemed a defense based on the expiration of the statute of limitations to be bad-faith conduct on the part of the defendant and have refused to apply it pursuant to Article 10 of the Civil Code (Cases No. A40-221753/2022, No. A32-60978/2023),” comments Dmitry Raev
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