According to Art. 2 of the Law on Advocacy and Advocacy in the Russian Federation - "Advocate is an independent professional counselor on legal issues".

When applying to the Advocate, you should know that any information related to the provision of legal assistance to you, including those who have become Advocates known from you or from other sources when carrying out your assignment, are a legal secret.

According to the current legislation of the Russian Federation, a lawyer can not be summoned and questioned as a witness about the circumstances that have become known to him in connection with your appeal to him for legal assistance or in connection with its provision.

Conducting operational search activities and investigative actions against a lawyer (including in residential and office premises used by him for advocacy) is allowed only on the basis of a judicial decision.

Received in the course of operational search activities or investigative actions (including after the suspension or termination of the status of an advocate) information, items and documents can be used as evidence of charges only in cases where they are not included in the production of a lawyer for the affairs of its trustees. These restrictions do not apply to instruments of crime, as well as to items that are prohibited from circulation or whose circulation is limited in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

The foregoing provisions on advocacy are set out in Article 8 of the Federal Law "On Advocacy and Advocacy in the Russian Federation".