Region: Belarus

The Permanent Court of Arbitration has revealed that a sanctioned Belarusian state-owned entity is seeking US$12 billion from Lithuania in its treaty claim over a terminated fertiliser transport contract.

21 January 2025

A Moscow court has recognised an award requiring an insolvent Russian railway company to pay Belarus more than US$10 million in costs – reasoning there was no unequal treatment in the arbitration since both Russia and Belarus are subject to Western sanctions. 

18 November 2024

The European Commission has proposed that the EU should invoke the Energy Charter Treaty’s denial of benefits clause to withdraw protections for Russian and Belarusian investors.

10 April 2024

A UK investor has made good on his threat to bring a treaty claim against Belarus, alleging the state expropriated a solar power project after withdrawing renewables incentives.

20 March 2024

An ICSID additional facility tribunal has thrown out a claim worth up to US$234 million brought by a Russian railway company against Belarus, after it found the investor engaged in a fraudulent scheme.

02 February 2024

Belarus says it has defeated a Lithuanian group’s US$9 million ICSID claim over a stalled project to construct a commercial centre in Minsk.

08 December 2023

A Belarusian state-owned entity has launched an investment treaty claim against Lithuania over the termination of a contract for the transportation of fertilisers in the wake of international sanctions.

15 November 2023

A UK investor has threatened to bring a treaty claim against Belarus, saying the state undermined and expropriated a solar power project after it withdrew various renewables incentives.

01 August 2023

Lawyers have condemned the decision of a Belarusian court to sentence local arbitration practitioner Aliaksandr Danilevich to 10 years in prison after he was convicted of criminal offences relating to his criticism of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

13 April 2023

Aliaksandr Danilevich, the Belarusian arbitration practitioner arrested for co-signing a petition denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has been charged with supporting sanctions and extremism and faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted.

11 January 2023