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А.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kosorukov</surname><given-names>K. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Константин Александрович КОСОРУКОВ - заместитель директора Правового департамента</p><p>Смоленская-Сенная пл., 32/34, Москва, 119200</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Konstantin A. KOSORUKOV - Deputy Director of Legal Department</p><p>32/34, Smolenskaya-Sennaya Sq., Moscow, 119200</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">kakosorukov@mid.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>29</day><month>07</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>0</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>203</fpage><lpage>226</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Косоруков К.А., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Косоруков К.А.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kosorukov K.A.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.mjil.ru/jour/article/view/2989">https://www.mjil.ru/jour/article/view/2989</self-uri><abstract><sec><title>ВВЕДЕНИЕ</title><p>ВВЕДЕНИЕ. Система международного правосудия сталкивается с новым вызовом. В борьбе за международную легитимность государства все чаще обращаются к органам разрешения международных споров как инструменту внешней политики. В ряде случаев это приобретает характер «юридической войны» – злоупотребления механизмами разрешения международных споров в политических целях.</p></sec><sec><title>МАТЕРИАЛЫ И МЕТОДЫ</title><p>МАТЕРИАЛЫ И МЕТОДЫ. В статье уделено особое значение принципу независимости и беспристрастности органов международного правосудия – международных судов, арбитражей, квазисудебных инстанций. Рассмотрение спора независимым и беспристрастным составом судей (арбитров) является одним из ключевых условий согласия государства на такое рассмотрение, что в свою очередь представляет собой непременное требование для изначального возникновения полномочия рассматривать этот спор. От выполнения этого условия напрямую зависит легитимность самого суда или арбитража, а также действительность вынесенных им решений.</p></sec><sec><title>РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ</title><p>РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ. Проведенное автором научное исследование позволяет рассмотреть вопросы существования, содержания и соблюдения принципа независимости и беспристрастности арбитров, выполнения связанных с этим правил процедуры и оснований для признания арбитражного решения недействительным на примере межгосударственного арбитража ad hoc, учрежденного на основе Приложения VII к Конвенции Организации Объединенных Нация (далее ‒ ООН) по морскому праву 1982 года для разрешения спора между Российской Федерацией и Украиной по так называемому Керченскому инциденту.</p></sec><sec><title>ОБСУЖДЕНИЕ И ВЫВОДЫ</title><p>ОБСУЖДЕНИЕ И ВЫВОДЫ. Путем изучения соответствующих правовых доктрин и анализа материалов дела выявлены несколько конкретных проблем, связанных с процедурой назначения арбитров, имеющих как локальное значение для арбитражей в рамках Приложения VII, так и более широкое, глобальное значение для ситуации в международном правосудии. Предложены конкретные варианты преодоления этих проблем в целях предупреждения политизации международных арбитражей, сохранения их беспристрастности и равноудаленности, что является незаменимым компонентом реализации принципа мирного урегулирования международных споров.</p></sec></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><sec><title>INTRODUCTION</title><p>INTRODUCTION. The system of international justice faces a new challenge. In the struggle for international legitimacy States are increasingly turning to international dispute settlement bodies as an instrument of foreign policy. In a few cases it takes the form of “lawfare” – the abuse of international dispute settlement mechanisms for political purposes.</p></sec><sec><title>MATERIALS AND METHODS</title><p>MATERIALS AND METHODS. The article highlights maintaining the independence and impartiality of international justice bodies – international courts, arbitrations, and quasi-judicial bodies – are of particular importance. Consideration of a dispute by an independent and impartial panel of judges (arbitrators) is one of the key conditions for the State’s consent to such consideration, which in turn is an indispensable requirement for the initial emergence of the authority to consider this dispute. The legitimacy of the court or arbitration tribunal itself, as well as the validity of its decisions directly depends on the fulﬁllment of this condition.</p></sec><sec><title>RESEARCH RESULTS</title><p>RESEARCH RESULTS. Author's research spots the existence, content and observance of the principle of independence and impartiality of arbitrators, the execution of relative rules of procedure and the grounds for invalidating an arbitration award using the example of interstate ad hoc arbitration established on the basis of Annex VII to the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to resolve a dispute between the Russian Federation and Ukraine related to the so-called “Kerch incident”.</p><p>DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS. Through examination of the relevant legal doctrines and analysis of the case materials, several speciﬁc problems of the procedure for the appointment of arbitrators have been identiﬁed, having both local signiﬁ-cance for Annex VII arbitrations and broader, global signiﬁcance for the situation in international justice. Options for overcoming these problems are proposed to prevent the politicization of international arbitrations, maintain their impartiality and equidistance, which is an indispensable component of the implementation of the principle of the peaceful settlement of international disputes.</p></sec></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>принцип независимости и беспристрастности</kwd><kwd>международное правосудие</kwd><kwd>«юридическая война»</kwd><kwd>легитимность</kwd><kwd>арбитраж</kwd><kwd>арбитр</kwd><kwd>назначение арбитров</kwd><kwd>предвзятость</kwd><kwd>отвод арбитра</kwd><kwd>Конвенция ООН по морскому праву</kwd><kwd>Международный Суд ООН</kwd><kwd>Международный трибунал по морскому праву</kwd><kwd>правила процедуры</kwd><kwd>юрисдикция</kwd><kwd>недействительность</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>inter-state arbitration</kwd><kwd>principle of independence and impartiality</kwd><kwd>international justice</kwd><kwd>“lawfare”</kwd><kwd>legitimacy</kwd><kwd>ad hoc</kwd><kwd>arbitrator</kwd><kwd>bias</kwd><kwd>challenge to arbitrator</kwd><kwd>International Tribunal for the Law&#13;
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