Organisation: Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation

Russia has successfully challenged arbitrators Donald McRae and Rüdiger Wolfrum in an inter-state dispute based on their support for a declaration that criticised Russian aggression in Ukraine, weeks after failing to disqualify two other arbitrators in a pair of investment treaty cases based on similar grounds.

21 March 2024

Ukraine’s Naftogaz says it has won a UK court order recognising its US$5 billion investment treaty award against Russia over the seizure of its assets in Crimea.

19 December 2023

Ukrainian state oil and gas Naftogaz has asked a court in Washington, DC, to enforce its US$5 billion investment treaty award against Russia over assets seized during the annexation of Crimea – putting the award in the public domain.

23 June 2023

More details have emerged about Naftogaz’s multibillion-dollar win against Russia in an investment treaty dispute over seized Crimean assets – including the arbitrators’ disagreement over the effect of a temporal limitation in the treaty and the relevance of sunk costs.

13 April 2023

Russia has said it intends to represent itself in a Canadian set-aside proceeding relating to a US$700 million Energy Charter Treaty dispute over the collapse of Yukos following the withdrawal of its local counsel – as GAR confirms the law firm defending the state in the arbitration has also withdrawn.

06 June 2022

GAR has heard how a hearing in a US$10 billion case brought by Ukraine’s national oil and gas company against Russia became a “surreal” experience when war broke out during the proceedings in the Peace Palace in The Hague, as Ukrainian participants were forced to walk and hitchhike into a warzone to protect their families.

21 March 2022