The present article examines the evolution of conflict regulation in the private international law of Russia and Poland. The author identifies the concept, structure and types of conflict rules, stressing that the conflict of laws is the most important category of private international law. A...

Russia's withdrawal from the Council of Europe and regional conventions on human rights protection, as well as the discussion about the need for Russia to withdraw from the WTO does not affect the implementation of universal agreements in the field of protection and observance of human rights,...

The debate on the privatization of enterprises in Eastern Europe often presumes that enterprises are still controlled by an identifiable entity called "the state". This, however, is no longer the case. Since the demise of tight central planning, the nominally state-owned enterprises are de facto...