On July 18, 2012, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation issued resolution No. 19-P. This resolution provided for the possibility to apply the Federal Law of May 2, 2006 No. 59-FZ «On procedures for examining appeals and addresses from citizens of the Russian Federation» to legal entities' appeals and addresses and to citizens' appeals and addresses to organizations which are not bodies of public authority or local self-government bodies. The subsequent changes in the Federal legislation consolidated the legal stance set out by the Constitutional Court and extended the application of Article 5.59 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation to organizations. This article attempts to analyze the concept of «publicly significant functions», which are key when addressing the issue of bringing commercial organizations to administrative responsibility, and to consider the jurisprudence on this issue.
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