allofmp3.com legal in Russia?

From the WSJ:

[allofmp3] obtains the music it sells by purchasing CDs in retail stores, he said, and receives some albums directly from record labels. He said the site pays licensing fees for the music it sells to a group called the Russian Organization for Multimedia & Digital Systems, or ROMS, which purports to represent Russian copyright holders. MP3search.ru and 3MP3.ru also say on their Web sites that they are licensed by ROMS.

Konstantin Leontiev, deputy director general for legal issues of ROMS, said in an e-mail statement that the group acts "in conformity with the requirements of the Russian laws." He said that the group's activities only cover users inside Russia, and said users outside Russia should consult local laws.

Evan Cox, an intellectual property lawyer at the firm Covington & Burling in San Francisco has a similar view: "It doesn't matter if somebody downloads in the U.S. and believes that it's legal because the site tells them so." Id.

So it appears that allofmp3.com is legal in Russia, but not the U.S., according to Mr. Cox anyway.