This is an updated version of yesterday’s post in the same matter, taking into account today’s vote of the Crimean…
On 3 March 2014 at the emergency UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, called by Russia to set out in…
The following is an appeal from the Ukrainian Association of International Law. The text was first published on EuroMaidanPR. A…
As the Ukrainian crisis continues to unfold, attention has shifted from the deposed president Viktor Yanukovych to the Crimea peninsula. …
The recent success of Switzerland’s popular initiative aimed at stopping “mass immigration” came as an irritating surprise and might have…
Switzerland’s political system is shaped around direct democratic participation: Four Sundays a year, Swiss citizens, 18 years or older, get…
Two weeks ago, a bare majority of the Swiss population approved an initiative designed to “Stop Mass Immigration“. The initiative…
Note: this is a revised version of the original post published on 21 December 2013. Additions have been made to…
In a judgment passed on 6 December 2013 the Constitutional Court of Russia (“Court”) for the first time has expressed…
“On the 24th, about half an hour after day-break, land was discovered bearing North East by East ½ East. Upon…