Recent Russian Court Cases

Abstract

This installment, on the Russian Federation alone, reports its court decisions from the Russian legal press - Advokatskaya Gazeta and the RAPSI agency - read in machine translation; the courts' own databases refused access and no official text of a judgment has been read. On expropriation, Constitutional Court ruling 22-P of 9 April 2026 holds that compensation on a taking for state needs is market value plus losses including lost profit, fixed and paid, or deposited with a notary, before the property passes; the Supreme Court (304-ES25-858) sent back an award because lost profit cannot be derived from average asking rents without proof the premises could have been let. It sets out the procedure in force from 1 January 2026 for setting cadastral value at market value: a mandatory pre-trial application to the regional state institution that made the cadastral valuation, decided within thirty days, on a valuer's report filed within six months of its valuation date. Constitutional Court ruling 48-P of 14 July 2026 allows an archival cadastral value still used as a tax base to be challenged, while the Supreme Court (304-ES25-3418) confines the correction to the future. Supreme Court decisions follow on bankruptcy sales of flats, the presumed reliability of an appraiser's report, a withdrawing member's share valued at thirty roubles, and a military-action exclusion in insurance.