INVESTMENT TREATIES AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Russia relatively immune
In the May 2008 issue of Business Law International (Volume 9, No 2, pp. 100-113), an article by Noah Rubins and Azizjon Nazarov was published. In this article, ‘Investment Treaties and the Russian Federation: Baiting the Bear?‘, the authors look at international treaties for the encouragement and protection of foreign investment such as the Energy Charter Treaty 1994 (ECT) as well as bilateral investment treaties (BITs).
The Energy Charter Treaty provides, a.o., that each Contracting Party shall encourage and create stable, equitable, favorable and transparent conditions for Investors (as defined in the ECT) of other Contracting Parties …
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