The War of ‘Sanctions’ and the Law of International Responsibility
Journal: Kutafin Law Review
Year: 2015

The article examines the legal nature of the so-called Ukraine-related sanctions in terms of the law of international responsibility. The author concludes that the measures taken by a number of Western countries against Russia in connection with the events in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, as well as the reaction of Russia to those measures, by their legal nature and content are not ‘sanctions’ in the understanding and in the context this term is mainly used in the modern law of international respo