Voluntary liquidation in Russia is a sequence of statutory gates: participant resolution, liquidator on the register, publication in the State Registration Bulletin, a two-month creditor window, interim and final liquidation balance sheets, settlement, deletion. Skip a gate and the FTS will not issue the record.
Foreign-owned files attract desk review and, often, a field audit of the last three years. That is why a clean, already-filing dormant company liquidates in something like 6–12 months, and a neglected one takes 12–24. The difference is rarely the liquidator’s speed. It is the backlog.
Administrative exclusion by the state is not a plan. It can leave residual claims and a director problem, and it is a poor story for U.S. counsel. If the board wants a file it can show, it wants voluntary liquidation.
Takeaways
- Do not promise the board a quarter-end deletion.
- Open maintenance and tax in parallel if the director or the filings are dead.
- A field audit is a scope change, not a failure of the liquidator.
This is not legal advice. See the legal notice and the sanctions framework.