Russia Running Rogue?: How the Legal Justifications for Russian Intervention in Georgia and Ukraine Relate to the U.N. Legal Order
Journal: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Year: 2016

based its foreign policy in 2008. 10 This was reiterated in Russia's foreign policy in 2013, which was approved by President Vladimir Putin. 11Russia often makes more of an effort to justify its actions under international law than many other states, including the United States. 12 Russia's efforts to justify its actions, however, should not be misconstrued to imply that Russia always obeys international law."International law emerges from states' pursuit of self-interested policies on the inter