Legal Aspect of Expanding the Scope of Control over Foreign Investments in the Russian Federation

The current political and economic background promotes a steady trend to strengthen control over foreign investments in the Russian Federation, both by expanding the scope of preliminary control (through specific administrative procedures where the governmental bodies decide whether an investment transaction is acceptable or not) and by tightening the consequences of violating the named procedure by foreign investors. The purpose of this article is to analyse the transformation of the legal regulation of foreign investment in connection with the need to protect national security and national interests of the Russian Federation.