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Who Are the Real Pirates in Somalia?

15:00 30.08.2010

Who Are the Real Pirates in Somalia?

A new international anti-piracy plan proposed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was discussed on August 25. Russia is suggesting the establishment of an intentional court to try pirates, and the UN Secretary General offers several anti-piracy options: The establishment of a Somali or UN-assisted court in a third state …

UN Court and Kosovo: International Law Amputated

15:00 26.07.2010

UN Court and Kosovo: International Law Amputated

On July 22, 2010 the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on the legality of the unilateral declaration of independence by «the Kosovo administration». The verdict was that the declaration was legal. The ruling, however, gives serious reasons to call into question the legality of the ICJ verdict.The …

Aggression in the Light of International Law: Huge Problems and Minor Progress

15:00 16.07.2010

Aggression in the Light of International Law: Huge Problems and Minor Progress

The international law in its present form abounds with paradoxes. For example, it explicitly disallows the use of incendiary bullets, but contains no ban on the use of nuclear weapons. The present-day criminal law is in many parts just as incoherent: degrading treatment of captured occupants who brought death to …

Kononov Against Latvia, or Top-Level History Falsification

16:34 27.05.2010

Kononov Against Latvia, or Top-Level History Falsification

On May 17, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) revealed the long-awaited decision on the Kononov case. It concerns Russia directly not only because Russian citizenship was granted to former Soviet partisan Vasily Kononov in 2000 amid his ordeal in Latvian courts, but, even more so, because the whole …

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