Abstract: This publication is dedicated to the analysis of discussions and results of the First United Nations Conference on Space Law and Policy, which was held in Moscow on September 11-13, 2018 under the aegis of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs – UNOOSA and the Government of the Russian Federation. The agenda consisted of the most topical questions that require the elaboration of agreed solutions for ensuring the reliable, safe and peaceful use of outer space at the benefit of entire humanity. The author analyzes the expert positions on such questions as ensuring security of space activities and outer space; prevention of the emergence of “space trash” and elimination of its consequences; exploration and development of space resources; management of space traffic. It is demonstrated that the forum held in Moscow gave incentives and instruments for further development of international cooperation for the speedy settlement of topical issues on space activities, as well as defined the key trends of continuous development of the international and national space law and policy. The author underlines the transition from the theoretical legal disputes regarding the fundamental admissibility of commercial extraction of extraterrestrial resources towards the practical search for potential model of the corresponding political legal regime, which would meet the interests of all UN member-states.

Keywords: Space Resources, Space Security, COPOUS, UNOOSA, International Space Policy, International Space Law, Space Debris, Space Activity, Outer Space Treaty, The Moon Agreement

Abstract: This review includes analysis of the results of the scientific research project “International private law of Russia, France and the European Union: hew horizon for joint justice”, which is implemented with the joint efforts of the Law Faculty of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The goal of the joint project was to achieve better knowledge and understanding of the French and Russian legal systems in respect of international private law relations. The studies concerned three directions: 1) evolution of the international private law in France, in the EU and in Russia (problems of federalism and methodology in the international private law); 2) specific features of application of international law in the conditions of global financial and economic crisis; 3) international commercial arbitration and alternative international dispute resolutions methods within the framework of global economic and financial crisis. As for the first direction, the work was done by I.V. Getman-Pavlova (Associate Professor of the Department of International Private Law, Co-Head of the Project), Didier Boden (Associate Professor of the Department of International Private Relations Studies), E.V. Postnikova (Senior Lecturer of the Department of International Law) and Jérémy Heymann (Associate Professor of the Department of International Private Relations Studies). Within the second direction the work was done by Rostovtseva N.V. (Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law), Etienne Pataut (Professor, Co-Director of the Department of International Private Relations Studies), S.A. Chekhovskaya (Associate Professor of the Department of Entrepreneurial Law), and David Chilstein (Professor of the Department of the International Private Relations Studies). As for the third direction, the work was done by N.Y. Erpyleva ( Professor, Head of the Department of International Private Law, Head of the Project), Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières (Professor of the Department of International Private Relations Studies, Head of the Project), L.A. Prokudina (Vice-Chairperson of the Department of Judicial Power and Justice Organization, Vice-Dean of the Law Faculty on Scientific Work) and Caroline Кleiner (Professor of the Law School of the Strasbourg University, Co-Head of the Project). Within the framework of the implementation of joint scientific research project there were held two roundtables – in Moscow on June 17-18, 2013, and in Paris on October 25-26, 2013, where all of the project participants presented their theses (working languages: Russian and French).

Keywords: Scientific Research University – Higher School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, joint scientific research project, international private law, Russia, France, the European Union, methodology, international commercial arbitration, public order.

Abstract: On 14 – 16 December 2010, a Scientifi c and Practical Workshop “Theory and Practice of Instruction on Humanitarian Norms in Central Asia” was jointly organised in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) by the Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Central Asia and the Tashkent State Institute of Law.