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Modern challenges for international law application in the former USSR countries are inextricably linked to the regional integration issues. Despite seeking closer rapprochement with the EU, Russia never dropped its ambitions as a spearhead of political, economic and legal integration within the post-Soviet area.

This newsletter analyzes legal developments in over-the-counter derivatives, futures, and option trading. It includes information on regulation, legislation, and litigation. Practical implications and compliance approaches are included with insightful commentary.

This article is yet another attempt to tackle the issue of subsidy extinguishment, the enduring conundrum of WTO law.

What are "braking points" in legal regulation. The problem of "braking points". Possibilities of removal of "braking points" in the procedure of normative control in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and other courts. Technology to overcome the "points of inhibition" in legal regulation.

In the Internet of Things (IoT), the amount and smart use of data will determine whether or not a firm can compete successfully. Firms, at least SMEs, will likely store their collected data in the cloud, purchasing cloud services and storage from the large e-platform providers doubling as cloud providers. This article discusses whether competition law can address the conduct of the cloud providers, so that firms may access and make use of all the possibilities that the IoT harbours.

The article is investigating the Chinese merger agency’s decision and the basis for its decision making and finds that much of the criticism is groundless and misleading because the critics have failed to incorporate all elements of the global value chain of mobile intelligent terminals into their analyses.

By examining the facts and analysis in the decision on the recent Chinese case of Qihoo v. Tencent, this article concludes that the market definition approach to identifying market power is misleading and counterproductive.

Russia and Ukraine have recently adopted complex statutes on consumer credit. Ukraine, unlike Russia, declared the aim of the new act, inter alia, harmonization of the legislation with international and EU standards. The article considers peculiarities of the elimination of the contract disproportion of debtor and creditor rights in contracts on consumer credit under new Russian and Ukrainian regulations from a comparative perspective.

The study analyses the EU Internal market from a dynamic and a contextual perspective, taking into account, not just the normative changes brought by the intense legislative and judicial activity in this area, but also the important economic and technological transformations that have largely altered the structure of the global economy in the last two to three decades.

​The authors consider the problem of growing inequality as one of the most striking manifestations of the new stage of the industrial revolution in Russia and the world. In this context, the article examines the effectiveness of legal means of responding to this challenge.

In the current paper, we investigate the predictive ability of Goldstone’s demographic structural model. In particular we seek to apply Turchin’s version of it to modeling the social pressures for political instability in the UK.

The research project aims to provide the first in-depth analysis of the regulation, from a competition policy perspective, of the food industry by the BRICS countries, and selected developed countries (European Union, United States). The aim has been to map the structure of the food value chain globally, as well as in the various jurisdictions, focusing on the balance of power between the various actors in the value chain: retailers, farmers, processors and suppliers, traders, agro-industry, consumers, in the current context of technological and societal transformation.