Every news story one reads about “law enforcement” in Russia highlights the use of the laws simply as a tool for the state to crush its opponents. An expat acquaintance, a British lawyer who was working for six weeks in Moscow, told me that, for his Russian counterparts, written contracts are pieces of paper created mainly for show.
At this point, you’d have to be crazy to invest any major money in Russia.
If you do work there, fine, but make sure you are always on Russia’s dime, and not your own.