What our Russia company report includes
Our Russia reports draw on sources including the EGRUL (Federal Tax Service register), Rosstat financial filings, the Central Bank for licensed entities, the Federal Bailiffs Service for enforcement records, and the court system. Since 2022, Russia has limited public reporting obligations for legal entities subject to foreign restrictive measures, so EGRUL coverage of sanctioned entities (ownership and officers) may be partially redacted; it also requires a company-specific search term and cannot be browsed as a complete public database. Coverage of any individual source depends on what the subject company has filed and what is publicly accessible at the time of the search. Cyrillic filings are translated into clear English.
Identity & registration
- ✓ INN (taxpayer ID), OGRN (state registration) and KPP
- ✓ Russian and English company names
- ✓ Legal form (OOO / LLC, AO / JSC, PAO / public JSC, branch)
- ✓ Date of registration and registered office
- ✓ EGRUL active status
People & ownership
- ✓ General Director (genealny direktor) and signatories
- ✓ Founders and shareholders
- ✓ Authorised capital (ustavnyy kapital)
- ✓ Ultimate beneficial owners
Financial & trading
- ✓ Filed accounts (Rosstat) in RUB
- ✓ Authorised business activities (OKVED codes)
- ✓ Sectoral licences (Central Bank for financial entities) (case-specific)
- ✓ Federal Tax Service compliance category (case-specific)
- ✓ Risk indicator
Risk & public records
- ✓ Court judgements (arbitrazh and civil)
- ✓ Bankruptcy proceedings
Why verify a Russian company?
Russia's corporate transparency is, paradoxically, among the highest in the world at the register level (the EGRUL is searchable, INN/OGRN identifiers are reliable, Rosstat publishes filed accounts for most entities), and yet the practical operating reality for any Western counterparty is shaped by the sanctions architecture imposed since February 2022. A Russia report concentrates on the credit and financial status of the company and on verifying the existence, identity and ownership of the counterparty against the public record.
The sanctions framework is extensive and continually evolving. The US has imposed SDN designations on more than 1,500 individuals and entities, sectoral sanctions covering energy, finance and defence, CAATSA secondary sanctions affecting transactions with named entities, and broad prohibitions covering many service categories. The EU has consolidated extensive measures including the 14th sanctions package and successors. The UK OFSI list mirrors much but not all of the EU framework. Other jurisdictions (Switzerland, Japan, Australia, Canada, Singapore) have separate lists with material variation.
For any commercial interaction with a Russian counterparty such as supplier qualification, customer review, asset-tracing or pre-divestment due diligence, an investigated Russia report provides credit, financial and identity verification on the company, its directors and its declared owners.