STATE TERRORISM - DEFINITIONS AND MANIFESTATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR
Journal: ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Year: 2024

The article examines national and international law in the context of interpreting the concept of terrorist state. Eleven criteria of the 1987 Geneva Declaration on Terrorism, which explain such a phenomenon as terrorist state, were analyzed. It was proved that the actions of modern Russia toward Ukraine fully correspond to all eleven criteria of the 1987 Geneva Declaration on Terrorism. It was demonstrated that Moscow’s bombing of civilian targets in Syria, Chechnya shows that russia’s way of w