One of the issues that Russian notaries face is whether to accept foreign powers of attorney where signatures have been attested by a notary public. The authors come to the conclusion that in order to resolve the issue of the law to which a form of a power of attorney is subject, subpara. 1 and 2 para. of 1 Art. 1209 of the Civil Code shall be applied, even if it has been issued for the performance of a transaction with real estate located in the territory of the Russian Federation; in this case para. 4 Art. 1209 shall not be applied. Accordingly, the powers of attorney, including those for transactions with real estate located in the territory of the Russian Federation, the signatures on which have been certified by a public notary, should be accepted by Russian notaries in absence of any obvious defects in their forms and if in their forms they comply with the law of one of the jurisdictions to which subpara. 1 para. 1 Art. 1209 of the CCRF refers. And, although Russian jurisprudence in some cases demonstrates another approach, mostly courts accept the powers of attorney where a principal’s signature was attested by a notary public. Despite this fact, a Russian notary should take measures to verify the authenticity of the powers of attorney and the powers of agent acting thereunder. Some of the measures are considered in this article.