Editorial standards
Sources
The documents we treat as primary sources and how we show the path from an announcement to an effective rule.
Last editorial review: 4 August 2026
Primary-source priority
For claims about legal status, deadlines, and obligations, RURChain first looks for the officially published legal text and its record in government legislative systems.
An agency announcement, transcript, guidance note, or news release can add context but does not replace the enacted text. Media reports and expert opinions are secondary material and are identified as such.
Core official resources
Official publication and legal texts
Draft-bill records and legislative stages
Chamber decisions and official material
Documents, rules, and platform-operator guidance
Draft regulations and public consultation
Evidence hierarchy
- Published legal act — for final wording, official-publication date, and effective date.
- Draft-bill record and chamber decisions — for the legislative stage.
- Official regulator guidance — for application guidance within the author's remit.
- Secondary material — for context, not as the sole evidence for a legally significant claim.
Links and archiving
An article links to the most specific available page or document, rather than only an institution's home page. The verification date records when editorial staff last checked the status.
RURChain's own document archive is still being developed. Until it launches, the project does not promise that external pages will remain unchanged and recommends checking the current version in the official system.
RURChain is an independent information and analysis project. It is not a Bank of Russia website or a government information system.