It has emerged that a US$4.5 million SCC award arising out of the first Russian-language Energy Charter Treaty claim was successfully recognised and enforced against Ukraine last month – but a Russian court is now considering whether to overturn the judgment debt that the award upheld.
Olena Perepelynska: On 1 June 2012 the Ukrainian general court of first instance granted the request of JSC BTA Bank for the recognition of the Freezing Order of the English Court issued in the BTA Bank v Ablyazov and others proceedings (the “Order” and the “BTA Bank case” respectively).
GAR: The president of the Supreme Arbitrazh Court of the Russian Federation, Anton Ivanov, has told a conference in St Petersburg that the Russian courts should be granted powers to set aside foreign court judgments and international arbitration awards that prejudice interests of Russian parties.