There are companies in russia working on producing satnav maps - I know a least one russian company - navicom - doing this (for garmin). I don't think they'd waste their time unless people were able to get away with using their products in everyday practice. Forget about legalities.
Russian laws are applied in a very arbitrary way because the function of russian law is to separate people into two groups: those who must follow a particular rule and those who can ignore it. The entire russian legal code should start with the words "it depends" - on who you are, who you know, how much money you've got and what works in practice.
If everyone followed all the rules, nothing would happen in russia. However, quite alot happens, so people must be ignoring the rules quite alot!
The last 2 paragraphs were taken from a book written by a russian who was attempting to explain why russia was different to western countries.
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