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Mansors Legal News Digest July-August 2023 available on mansors.com
Russian legal news, reports from HKIAC and AIFC, ICC Guides
After the first rocket launches in the late 1950s, it became clear that space objects, both at launch and on return to the Earth, can pose danger to people, the environment, and property. It is natural that with the expansion of the national space programs across the globe in the early 1960s increasing the number of rocket launches, cases of space objects falling onto Earth also became more frequent.
On 17 February 2023 the Russian Arbitration Association (RAA) held an arbitration seminar & networking in Dubai International Financial Center. It was an inaguaral event in Dubai and the Middle East of the RAA. The meeting focused on sharing the practitioners’ experience and was attended by 70 lawyers from Russia, the Middle East and North Africa on arbitrations affected by unilateral restrictive measures, including sanctions.
Nadezhda Orlova, Alexander Ermolenko, Sergey Ermolenko, Alena Ermolenko, Elena Shigidina and Alexandra Gerasimova with the team of 15 lawyers start working under their own brand.
On 28 October 2022, OFSI issued General Licence No. INT/2022/2252300 permitting U.K. law firms and counsel who have provided legal advice to persons designated under Russia or Belarus sanctions regimes to receive payments subject to limitations of the licence.
On 8 December 2022, the letter from the OFAC was received clarifying that the OFAC “has no objection to the use of bank cards of the "MIR" system by individuals, namely citizens who migrated from Russia to Kazakhstan to carry out transactions that support their vital activity”.
