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Federal Law on Measures of Impact (or Counteraction) against Unfriendly Actions of the United States of America and Other Foreign States - Russian Federation - Russia and the Republics Legal Materials - Second Series
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Preview Page Article 1. Purpose and Sphere of Application of Present Federal Law
1. The purpose of the present Federal Law shall be defense of the interests and security of the Russian Federation, the sovereignty and territorial integrity thereof, and the rights and freedoms of citizens of the Russian Federation against unfriendly actions of the United States of America and other foreign States, including being expressed in the introduction of political or economic sanctions with respect to the Russian Federation, citizens of the Russian Federation, or Russian juridical persons or in the performance of other actions representing a threat to the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation or directed towards the economic and political destabilization of the Russian Federation.
2. Measures of impact (or counteraction) directed towards achievement of the purpose specified in point 1 of the present Article (hereinafter – measures of impact (or counteraction)) may be applied with respect to the United States of America and other foreign States performing unfriendly actions with respect to the Russian Federation, citizens of the Russian Federation, or Russian juridical persons (hereinafter – unfriendly foreign States), and also with respect to organizations under the jurisdiction of unfriendly foreign States, directly or indirectly under the control of unfriendly foreign States or affiliated with them, officials, and citizens of unfriendly foreign States if the particular organizations, officials, and citizens are participating in the commission of unfriendly actions with respect to the Russian Federation.
William E. Butler, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law in the University of London, attached to University College London, is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University, and Founder and Director of The Vinogradoff Institute.
An authority on the legal systems of Russia and former Soviet nations, he is the author, co-author, editor or translator of more than 3,500 books and articles on Russian, Soviet, Kazakhstan, Ukrainian, Uzbekistan, and other Commonwealth of Independent States legal systems. He has acted as Counsel to the EBRD, European Union, World Bank, United Nations, and Department for International Development of the United Kingdom on individual law reform projects.
The recipient of numerous honors for his service to Russian and international law, Professor Butler is Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Associate of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and Member of the Russian Academy of Legal Sciences. He has been elected to his fourth term as a member of the Russian International Court of Commercial Arbitration. In 2003 Professor Butler was awarded the G. I. Tunkin Medal by the Russian International Law Association.
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