The rights and obligations of the shareholders in the law of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Azerbaijan

The rights and obligations of the shareholders established by the civil legislation of the state and the internal corporate acts of the joint-stock companies. Disclosure, both the rights and responsibilities of shareholders, as well as their possible improvements in the light of the current reform of the civil legislation of the Russian Federation is the relevance of this research. However, a greater importance in terms of the relevance of research is the study of the legal status of joint-stock companies as a whole, as well as the rights and obligations of shareholders in particular, not only in the Russian Federation but also in the Republic of Azerbaijan, where the most recent changes to the civil legislation, as it relates to the subject considered relations were introduced 10 years ago and since then, have not been significant amendments. One of the goals of this research is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the civil legislation of the considered states in terms of regulating the rights and obligations of shareholders, through a comparative legal analysis of their provisions.

the rights and obligations of the shareholders, joint-stock company, corporation, shareholders register, constituent documents, internal corporate acts