Civil Code of Russia

• Part 1 • Section I: General provisions • Section II: Ownership and other proprietary interests • Section III: The general part of the law of obligations • Part 2 • Section IV: Specific types of obligations • Part 3 • Section V: Succession law • Section VI: International private law • Part 4 • Section VII: The right to products of intellectual activity and means of individualization Unlike most European civil codes, Russia's Civil Code does not cover family law. Instead, family law is dealt with in a separate code. ==History==

Since its foundation as an independent successor state of the former Soviet Union, the Russian Federation had been engaged in a large legislative project of developing a new Civil Code. In July 1994, President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree authorizing the "Establishment and Development of Private Law in Russia" program. The drafts of all four parts of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation were prepared by the S. S. Alekseev Research Center for Private Law under the President of the Russian Federation. All of them subsequently became laws. The working group on the preparation of the first (general) part included G. D. Golubov, A. L. Makovsky, O. M. Kozyr, S. A. Khokhlov, V. V. Vitryansky, V. A. Dozortsev, M. I. Braginsky, E. A. Sukhanov, G. E. Avilov. It took significant effort to get first part of the Code approved by the State Duma — while the Federation Council voted against the Code. However, the Federation Council took longer than allowed by the Constitution to come to its decision. This allowed Yeltsin to sign the Code into law. In other words, as Sergei Alexeyev put it, the Civil Code became law almost "by accident". ==See also==