D&B Report Guide - Russian Federation

Facts and figures:

Country Russian Federation
Business Universe 1,000,000
International Dialling Code 7
Legal Currencies Russian Roubles
Population 150,000,000
Capital Moscow
Language Russian
Time GMT +3

D&B Business Information Report content:

D&B Rating Yes Credit Appraisal Yes
Public Data Yes Financial Ratios n/a
D&B Payment Score n/a    

Legal forms in Russian Federation:

Legal Form Legal Form (local)
Legal Form Legal Form (Local)
Proprietorship Chastniy Predprinimatel
General Partnership Polnoe Tovarishchestvo
Comandite Partnership Tovarishchestvo na vere
Limited Liability Co Obshchestvo s ogranichennoy otvetstvennostyu
Private Joint Stock Co Zakrytoe aktsionernoe obshchestvo
Public Joint Stock Co Otkrytoe aktsionernoe obshchestvo
Cooperative Proizvodstvennin kooperativ
State Concern Gosudarstvennoe predpriyatie
State Unitary Concern Gosudatistvennoe unitarnoe predprivatie
Russian Joint Stock Co (Joint Stock Co owned by state concerns and bodies) RAO Rossiskiy Aktsionernoe Obshchestvo

 

  Name
Address
Principals		 Reg Date
Number
Start Date		 Capital
(minimum)		 Ownership
(minimum number)
Proprietorship Yes Yes None 1
General Partnership Yes Yes 7,000,000 2
Comandite Partnership Yes Yes 7,000,000 2
Limited Liability Co Yes Yes 8,400 1
Private Joint Stock Co Yes Yes 8,400 2
Public Joint Stock Co Yes Yes 70,000,000 2
Cooperative Yes Yes 7,000,000 5
State concern Yes Yes 1 1

'None'  means that there is no minimum capital requirement for these types of companies.

Legal filing requirements:

It is not compulsory for Sole Proprietorships to prepare formal financial statements.

For all types of Partnerships, Private Joint Stock Companies and Cooperatives, financial statements should be declared to state authorities. This is a long procedure before are published and accessible to the public.

Financial statements are generally available if the company is Public Joint Stock Company. Year end financial statements are available from August 1st of the current year from the State Statistics Committee.

D&B Business Information Report - data sources and data elements:

Here is a breakdown of information available in Russian Federation and where this information is obtained from.

Trade Registrar's Office and Trade Registry Gazette:

  • Registration data (registration number, date of registration, founders, place of registration)
  • bankers details

Local telephone directory:
  • company name
  • address details
  • telephone/fax numbers
  • activity

All-Russian databases:

  • parent/affiliations
  • registration/operation addresses
  • annual capacity
  • activity/products
  • official financial statements
  • comparatives
  • export/import operations

Direct telephone interview:
  • activity/market territory
  • client type & number
  • premises/branches/divisions/employees
  • affiliations
  • expansion plans
  • balance sheets/profit & loss/projected sales

Business publications and news clippings:
  • news articles concerning the subject company and its shareholders

Public Courts:

  • bankruptcies
  • legal suits
  • charges

All publicly available data is collected and verified from each of the above data sources by our locally positioned D&B Correspondent for each Business Information Report request received.

Speed of service: 4 working days

Should you require any further information or have any questions, please contact your local Customer Service Centre.

Business Information Report enquiries which are placed with D&B's Emerging Markets Centre should always contain the below details. Unfortunately, enquiries without the below information have a much higher chance of being returned as an Unable To Locate Report. This is simply due to the fact that data sources in the Emerging Markets are not as sophisticated as those in Western Europe.

  • Full Company Name
  • Full Head Quarters Address (street, town, country)
  • Telephone Number
  • Fax Number

Any additional information such as a contact name or line of business would also help to locate the subject of your enquiry.