International Civil Procedure in Post-Soviet Space: The Partcipation of Foreigners

This book contains twelve country studies, excluding the Baltic republics, setting out the basic legal regime regulating the participation of foreign juridical persons and individual entrepreneurs in legal proceedings before arbitrazh or economic courts (depending on the jurisdiction concerned). Reference is made in each country to general jurisdiction, retorsions, exclusive jurisdiction, contractual jurisdiction, location of defendant, procedural capacity, and, with respect to the recognition and enforcement of foreign judicial decisions, to reciprocity, procedure for recognition and enforcement, refusal to recognize and enforce, public policy, and foreign judicial decisions not requiring enforcement. The volume is accompanied by translations of major regional multilateral and bilateral agreements (Kiev, Minsk, Moscow, Kishinev agreements and others).