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Russia Tag

29 May

[Natalia Kubesch is a Legal Advisor at REDRESS, focussing on asset recovery and the repurposing of assets frozen under Magnitsky Sanctions for the purpose of human rights reparations, and leading REDRESS’ universal jurisdiction work. Prior to this, Natalia practiced at two large international law firms in London, working on complex financial crime investigations and litigations, and advised on compliance with international sanction regimes.  Lyra Nightingale is...

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26 May

[Sirra Ndow is Country Director of ANEKED (The Gambia). ANEKED is a victim/survivor-led organisation advancing transitional justice, reparations, and human rights advocacy through survivor-centred initiatives, and contributes to global narratives on reparative justice from a survivor perspective] Too often, reparations processes focus on compensation, prosecutions, and institutional reforms while neglecting the lived experiences, dignity, and recognition of victims. In doing so, they risk...

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25 May

[Laura Posada-Orjuela is a Colombian lawyer with an LL.M. from McGill University, specializing in international human rights and transitional justice. She served as legal advisor to a commissioner at the Commission for the Verification of Identity and Kinship of Victims of the Patriotic Union (Comisión para la Constatación de Identidad y Parentesco de Víctimas de la Unión Patriótica, UP)] Introduction On March 31, 2026, the mandate of the Commission...

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25 May

[Kostiantyn Davydenko lived in Donetsk and worked in property valuation before the war. He was detained by officers of the FSB in Simferopol and accused of espionage. He remained in captivity from February 11, 2018, until August 24, 2025, after being released through an exchange procedure. After his release, he co-founded the Charitable Foundation "Civilians in Captivity", and he continues...

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02 Mar

[Quazi Omar Foysal is a Bangladeshi-qualified international lawyer, currently pursuing a PhD at La Trobe University, Australia] When the ICJ issued a press release dated 31 January 2025 stating that Russia had incorporated counter-claims in its Counter-Memorial in the Ukrainian Genocide Allegations case, there was a considerable degree of speculation within the international community regarding the contents of such counter-claims. It...

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24 Feb

[Anastasiya Donets leads the Ukraine Legal Team at the International Partnership for Human Rights, working on strategic litigation and corporate accountability related to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Anastasiya holds an LLM degree from Harvard Law School and a PhD in International Law from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Mariam Bezhanishvili is a Senior Legal Officer at International...

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24 Feb

[Mohammadhossein Sedehi is a DPhil student in international law at the University of Oxford, St Edmund Hall] Introduction Almost 10 years ago, five permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) and Germany, collectively known as the 5+1, reached a historic agreement with Iran regarding its nuclear program: the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The agreement was endorsed by UNSC Resolution...

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23 Feb

[Doniyor Mutalov is a Research Assistant at the Center for International Law and Governance, where he works with Professor Sebastián Mantilla Blanco. He holds an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and was awarded the Leo Gross Prize for excellence in law studies] Facts On December 25, 2024, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, an Embraer 190 with...

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02 Dec

[Hryhorii Turshukov is a research associate and teaching assistant at the Institute for European Law and the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC) at KU Leuven, Belgium] In light of ongoing efforts to revive full-fledged peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, the question of sanctions inevitably arises. Although sanctions will likely be considered within the broader framework of peace talks, it remains...

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17 Nov

[Kurt Mundorff is the author of A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Routledge, 2020)] Russia’s longstanding practice of removing Ukrainian children from occupied territories and transferring them to special camps or for adoption by Russian families expanded exponentially with its 2022 invasion. Scholars with the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab (YHRL) found that “[m]ore than 19,000 children from Ukraine have been deported to...

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17 Nov

[Kurt Mundorff is the author of A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Routledge, 2020)] Part 1 outlined the cultural genocide exclusion doctrine and conducted a textual interpretation of the Genocide Convention. As I discussed, most exclusionists bypass the convention’s text, and for good reason. Not only does the text omit any exclusionist language it also appears to support a more culture-centric idea...

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17 Nov

[Kurt Mundorff is the author of A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention (Routledge, 2020)] On 12 April 2022, former U.S. President Biden doubled down on an offhanded remark accusing President Putin of genocide in Ukraine, declaring “[y]es, I called it genocide. It has become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being...

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