Signing
Signing — either a stage of concluding a contract, or a form of expressing the consent of the Russian Federation to the binding nature of an international treaty for it in cases where the treaty provides that signing has such effect, or otherwise established by agreement between the Russian Federation and other participating states in negotiations that signing should have such effect, or the intention of the Russian Federation to confer such effect on signing is inferred from the authority of its representative or was expressed during negotiations1.
Federal Law No. 101-FZ of July 15, 1995 "On International Treaties of the Russian Federation", as amended on July 15, 1995, Article 2, para. // Official Gazette of the Russian Federation. 1995. No. 29. Art. 2757. ↩