Normative legal acts Federal Law of 29.12.2012 N 273-ФЗ "On Education in the Russian Federation"
Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 24.05.2013 No. 438 "On the State Information System "Register of Organizations Carrying Out Educational Activities on State Accredited Study Programmes"
Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 11.04.2017 No. 431 "On Forming and Keeping the List of Organizations Implementing Public Accreditation of the Basic Professional Study Programmes, Basic Programmes of Professional Training and (or) Further Education Programmes"
Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 26.12.2017 No. 1642 (amended on 04.10.2018) "On Approval of the State Programme of the Russian Federation "Development of Education"
The Constitution of the Russian Federation (adopted by the nationwide referendum on 12.12.1993) (amended by the Law on Amendments to the Constitution of the Russian of 30.12.2008 N 6-ФКЗ, of 30.12.2008 N 7-ФКЗ, of 05.02.2014 N 2-ФКЗ, of 21.07.2014 N 11-ФКЗ)
Article 15
1.The Constitution of the Russian Federation shall have the supreme juridical force, direct action and shall be used on the whole territory of the Russian Federation. Laws and other legal acts adopted in the Russian Federation shall not contradict the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
2. The bodies of state authority, the bodies of local self-government, officials, private citizens and their associations shall be obliged to observe the Constitution of the Russian Federation and laws.
3. Laws shall be officially published. Unpublished laws shall not be used. Any normative legal acts concerning human rights, freedoms and duties of man and citizen may not be used, if they are not officially published for general knowledge.
4. The universally-recognized norms of international law and international treaties and agreements of the Russian Federation shall be a component part of its legal system. If an international treaty or agreement of the Russian Federation fixes other rules than those envisaged by law, the rules of the international agreement shall be applied.
The Civil Code of the Russian Federation (part 1) of 30.11.1994 N 51-ФЗ
Article 123.24. Basic Provisions on the Autonomous Non-Profit Organisation
1. The autonomous non-profit organisation is a unitary non-profit organisation that has no membership and is formed on the basis of property contributions of citizens and/or legal entities for the purposes of provision of services in the fields of education, health care, culture, science and other spheres of non-profit activities. An autonomous non-profit organisation may be formed by one person (may have one founder).
2. The charter of the autonomous non-profit organisation shall comprise information on its name, including the words "autonomous non-profit organisation", location, the subject and objectives of its activities, the composition, procedure for formation and competence of the bodies of the autonomous non-profit organisation and also the other information envisaged by a law.
3. The property that has been handed over to the autonomous non-profit organisation by its founders is owned by the autonomous non-profit organisation. The founders of the autonomous non-profit organisation do not retain rights to the property they have handed over to that organisation to be owned by it. The founders are not liable for the obligations of the autonomous non-profit organisation they have formed, and it is not liable for the obligations of its founders.
4. The founders of the autonomous non-profit organisation may use its services only on equal terms with other persons.
5. The autonomous non-profit organisation has the right of pursuing the entrepreneurial activity required to attain the objectives for the sake of which it has been formed and that complies with these objectives by means of forming business associations for the purpose of pursuing entrepreneurial activities or participating in them.
6. A person may at his own discretion withdraw from among the founders of the autonomous non-profit organisation. By a decision of the founders of the autonomous non-profit organisation taken unanimously new persons may be admitted as founders.
7. By a decision of its founders the autonomous non-profit organisation may be transformed into a fund.
8. As it concerns the area not regulated by the present Code the legal status of autonomous non-profit organisations and also the rights and duties of the founders thereof shall be established by a law.
Article 123.25. Managing an Autonomous Non-Profit Organisation
1. The activities of an autonomous non-profit organisation shall be directed by its founders in the procedure established by its charter endorsed by its founders.
2. By a decision of the founders of the autonomous non-profit organisation a permanent collective body (bodies) may be set up in it, the competence of the body (bodies) being established by the charter of the autonomous non-profit organisation.
3. The founder(s) of the autonomous non-profit organisation shall appoint a sole executive body of the autonomous non-profit organisation (chairman, director general etc.). One of the founders of the autonomous non-profit organisation being citizens may be appointed as sole executive body thereof.
Federal Law of 12.01.1996 N 7-ФЗ "On Non-Profit Organizations"
Article 10. Autonomous Non-Profit Organization
1. As an autonomous non-profit organisation shall be deemed a membershipless nonprofit organisation set up for the purpose of granting services in the field of education, public health care, culture, science, law, physical training and sports, as well as in other fields. An autonomous non-profit organisation may be set up as a result of its establishment by citizens and/or legal entities on the basis of voluntary property contributions. Where it is provided for by federal laws, an autonomous non-profit organisation may be established by way of transformation of a legal entity having a different organisation legal form. The property transferred to an autonomous non-profit organisation by its founder(s) shall be the ownership of the said non-profit organisation. The founders of the autonomous non-profit organisation shall not retain the rights to the property transferred by them in ownership of the said organisation. The founders shall not be liable for the obligations of the non-profit organisation created by them, and the organisation shall not be liable for the obligations of its founders.
2. An autonomous non-profit organisation may carry on business activity corresponding to the objectives for the achievement of which the said organisation has been created.
3. The activity of autonomous non-profit organisation shall be supervised by its founders in the procedure stipulated by its constituent documents.
4. The founders of an autonomous non-profit organisation may use its services only on equal conditions with any other persons.