by Russian Federation, Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights (1993)
“ Where no such person has been named, the protection of the right of authorship, the right to be named as author and right to protection for the author's reputation shall be ensured after the author's death either by his heirs or by an agency of the Russian Federation especially empowered to do so and which shall likewise ensure such protection in the absence of heirs or where the heirs' copyright has lapsed. ”
