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Legal entities can only be created in those organizational and legal forms which are listed in the CC of the RF. State corporations and state companies, which are not mentioned in the CC of the RF, are an exception to this rule.[26] In total, 22 organizational and legal forms of legal entities exist in Russia.

All legal entities are divided into:

i) profit and non-profit organizations;

ii) corporations and unitary legal entities.

All types of legal entities can be schematically displayed as followes:

Moreover, there is one more organizational-legal form – advocacy formations (being legal entities). Legal entities of this type are non-profit organizations, however in the CC of the RF, they are not assigned to either corporations or to unitary organizations. Obviously, this is an omission of the legislator. At the same time, the analysis of the legislation allows the claim that Bar Associations (variety of formations of advocates which are legal entities) are referred to corporations.