The Russian Constitutional Court in its ruling of 29 April 2025 No. 999-O refused to consider the constitutionality of Articles 248.1 and 248.2 of the Russian Arbitrazh Procedure Code (“APC RF”) (a.k.a. the Lugovoy Law, discussed previously here, here and here). These provisions allow the Russian courts to assert exclusive j...
Just over 4 months after its previous landmark ruling of 26 July 2024, the Russian Supreme Court continues its crusade against “hostile” or “unfriendly” arbitration forums under the so-called Lugovoy Law (Articles 248.1 and 248.2 of the Russian Arbitrazh (commercial) procedure code). On 28 November 2024, the Supreme Court issued a new ruling in which it held that Russian arbitrazh (commerci...
Russian teams withdrew from the 29th Willem C. Vis Moot that is taking place in Vienna, Austria, these days. This step was taken in support of the Vis Moot, a competition which coaches of the withdrawn teams, being almost every one a Vis Moot alumnus, admire and highlight as one of the brightest moments of their lives. I am one of those coaches and a participant of the 22nd Vis Moot....
Stepan Sultanov (KIAP) and Piotr Gajek (WKB) / February 13, 2022
A party to arbitration proceedings may incur ancillary litigation costs, such as those associated with interim measures. Most academic commentary considering whether such expenditures actually constitute arbitration costs refers to professor Hanotiau, who states that costs related to litigat...
Moscow hosted the conference “Best Antitrust Practices 2021” from Forbes Congress on 22 October 2021. Ilya Ischuk — Partner, Head of Antitrust Practice in KIAP, Attorneys at Law, joined the fourth session “Judicial Practice in Russia: Antitrust Cases and New Court Stories” with a speech “Per se or not per se: How Courts Treat the “Cartel” Clauses of Resolution No. 2 of the Plenum of S...
The 2015 Queen Mary and White & Case International Arbitration Survey1 revealed that a lack of effective sanctions during the arbitral process was the second worst characteristic of international arbitration. Within the same survey, 52% of respondents picked sanctions for dilatory conduct by parties or their counsel as effective innovation that could be included in arbitral rules and proce...
Published by Natalia Kisliakova, Peter Stewart.
The Russian doping scandal has been in the headlines since 2014 when German television channel, RTL, broadcast a documentary (the RTL Documentary) concerning the alleged existence of a doping regime within the All-Russia Athletics Federation. Over the last few years, details of the sophisticated nature of the scheme have emerged following ...