Business programme
20.05.2025
09:30–11:00

Issues of Compliance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

Congress Centre, conference hall D3
International Law in a Changing World
Broadcast
The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is a universal international treaty and a key element of the modern international law system. The Convention aims to regulate the legal status of the World Ocean, while balancing the interests of both large industrialized states and developing nations as well. The legal classification of maritime spaces that was finally enshrined with the adoption of the Convention made it possible to clearly define the rights of states with respect to maritime spaces, establish their legal status, and develop and secure the proper enforcement of laws for each space in order to maintain this legal order in the World Ocean. What are some of the main problems with the Convention and its law enforcement practices? How effective is the current system of legal support for navigation along the Northern Sea Route? How can we combat unilateral illegal restrictive measures that are applied in maritime? What is the current international legal policy of World Ocean states that are not parties to the Convention? How are the rights to lay submarine cables and pipelines in the open seas regulated?

Moderator

Anna Otke
Member of the Committee on International Affairs of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Panellists

Damir Bekyashev
Acting Head of the International Law Department, MGIMO University
Roman Dotsenko
Acting North-West Transport Prosecutor
Anatoly Kapustin
President, Russian Association of International Law; Acting Head of the Center for International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation
Evgeniy Katz
Director of the Department of Regulation in the Sphere of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Fish Farming), Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation
Vitaly Klyuev
Director, Department of State Policy for Maritime and River Transport, Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation
Ruben Muru
Head of the Department of International Maritime Law, Military Training and Research Center of the Navy “ Naval Academy named after Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union N. G. Kuznetsov”
Maxim Musikhin
Director of the Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Polina Senatorova
Director of the Compliance Department, Far-Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO)
Maxim Uvaidov
State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation

Front row participants

Vsevolod Belikov
Chairman of the Committee on Legislation of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Alexander Bulavinov
Advisor to the Department of Legal Support for International Cooperation, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM
Alexander Vylegzhanin
Editor-in-Chief, Moscow Journal of International Law; Head of the Laboratory of International Legal Research, MGIMO University
Alexey Klyavin
President, All-Russian branch association of employers “Russian Chamber of Shipping”
Prashant Kumar
President, Bar Association of India
Kirill Mazanov
Head of the Department of Regulatory Legal and Financial Support, Department of Nuclear Energy, Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Belarus
Andrey Petrakov
Director, Business Law Institute; Deputy Head of the Department of Entrepreneurial and Corporate Law, Moscow State Law University named after O.E. Kutafin
Konstantin Chaika
Chief Researcher, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Broadcast

Anna Otke
Member of the Committee on International Affairs of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Damir Bekyashev
Acting Head of the International Law Department, MGIMO University
Roman Dotsenko
Acting North-West Transport Prosecutor
Anatoly Kapustin
President, Russian Association of International Law; Acting Head of the Center for International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation
Head of the Chair of International Law at the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honored Worker of the Higher School of the Russian Federation.
Born in 1954, place of birth – Gorky region (USSR).
Graduated in 1980 from the Faculty of Economics and Law (Department of Law) P. Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University, specialty "International Law".
Defended PhD thesis ((Candidate of legal sciences)) on International Public Law - 1984.
Defended Doctoral thesis (Doctor of of legal sciences) on International Public Law and European Law -2001.
Professor of International Law – 2002.
Honored scientist of the Russian Federation -2015.
1983-2010 – Assistant, Associate Professor, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, Dean of the Law Faculty of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow.
From 2010 to the present - Head of the Center for Comparative Legal Studies of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, Head of the Center for Educational Programs of the Institute, Deputy Director of the Institute, First Deputy Director of the Institute, Academic Adviser of the Institute, acting Head of the Department of Foreign Constitutional, Administrative, Criminal Legislation and International Law of the Institute, Head of the Department Institute of International Law, Head of the Chair of International Law of the Institute.
Research interests: modern problems of theory and practice of International law, published more than 340 works, including 30 monographs (2 individual, the rest in co-authorship), 35 textbooks and teaching aids in Russia and abroad.
President of the Russian Association of International Law (Moscow),
Member of the International Legal Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia,
Member of the Executive Council of the Association of International Law (London, UK).
He has State and Ministries (Federal Departments) awards, commendations, certificates of honor and diplomas. Winner of the 2014 prize of the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum "For Contribution to the development of legal integration in the Eurasian space".
Evgeniy Katz
Director of the Department of Regulation in the Sphere of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Fish Farming), Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation
Vitaly Klyuev
Director, Department of State Policy for Maritime and River Transport, Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation
Ruben Muru
Head of the Department of International Maritime Law, Military Training and Research Center of the Navy “ Naval Academy named after Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union N. G. Kuznetsov”
Maxim Musikhin
Director of the Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Date and place of birth: 14 November 1975, Moscow, USSR.
Education

1997 Graduated from Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO), Faculty of International Law, Diploma in International Law.
Present position

Director, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia.

Diplomatic Rank Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Positions held

2019-2023 Deputy Director, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia.
2014-2018 Head of Legal Section, Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations in New York.
2011-2014 Head of Section, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia.
1997-2011 Various positions, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia; Embassy of Russia and Mission to the OPCW in the Hague; Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations Office in Geneva.
2020-present Adjudicator, Panel of Adjudicators of the OSCE.
Polina Senatorova
Director of the Compliance Department, Far-Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO)
Maxim Uvaidov
State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation
Vsevolod Belikov
Chairman of the Committee on Legislation of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Alexander Bulavinov
Advisor to the Department of Legal Support for International Cooperation, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM
Alexander Vylegzhanin
Editor-in-Chief, Moscow Journal of International Law
Doctor of Law, Professor, is a Head of the Program of International Law, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO- University). He is elected as a Vice-president of the Russian Association of International Law and a Vice-President of the Russian Association of the Law of the Sea. He is nominated by the Russian Federation to the list of arbitrators according to Annex VII of the UNCLOS. He is elected as a Member of the Committee on the Arctic and Antarctic of the Council of Federation (the Upper Chamber of the Russian Parliament). Honorable Lawyer of the Russian Federation. He is Editor-in Chief of the Moscow Journal of International Law and also a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “JUS GENTIUM” and of the Journal “STATE AND LAW”. He has publicized a wide array of books and papers on international law, mainly in Russian .
Alexey Klyavin
President, All-Russian branch association of employers “Russian Chamber of Shipping”
Prashant Kumar
President, Bar Association of India
Prashant Kumar was President of LAWASIA from 2015-2017. A policy economist turned lawyer, Mr Prashant Kumar specialises in constitutional law, commercial and civil matters, arbitration and intellectual property, as well as matters relating to information technology law, infrastructure agreements, public-private partnerships and anti-dumping laws.

Mr Kumar's law firm seconded three domain consultants to the Asian Development Bank led project team to carry out IT reform in the Delhi judiciary as a pilot project in 2003-2005 and he actively engages in assisting infusion of technology in judicial systems on informal basis.


P Kumar, Profile

He has taken keen interest in using technology to carry out legal processes and his firm has developed and worked successfully IT based dispute resolution model for resolving mass auto loan disputes in which statements of claim and documentation is generated in a fully automated manner involving a range of legal and fact variations. Arbitrators are also made available award assist programme, which produces a template award which arbitrators can validate, improve and utilise as a base to pass an appropriate award.

Mr Kumar heads KPA Legal, a boutique law firm with a clientele that includes MNCs and major corporate houses in India.

Mr Kumar is a Life Member of both the Bar Association of India and the Supreme Court Bar Association. He has held various positions in the Bar Association of India and currently serves as its President Elect.
Kirill Mazanov
Head of the Department of Regulatory Legal and Financial Support, Department of Nuclear Energy, Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Belarus
Andrey Petrakov
Director, Business Law Institute; Deputy Head of the Department of Entrepreneurial and Corporate Law, Moscow State Law University named after O.E. Kutafin
Konstantin Chaika
Chief Researcher, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1982-1987 – a teacher, director of a secondary school.
1987-2000 – held various positions in the prosecutor's office of the Kamchatka region from trainee, assistant of prosecutor of the Milkovskiy district of the Kamchatka region to the prosecutor of the Kamchatka region.
2000-2006 – Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
State Counselor of Justice, I (First) class.
April, 2006 – appointed Deputy Head; State Secretary - Deputy Head of the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision of Russia.
From November 2008 to February 2012 held the posts of Deputy Head; State Secretary - Deputy Head of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation.
Lieutenant-General of the Customs Service.
From 2012 to 2014 – the Judge of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Community.
Since January 1, 2015 – the Judge of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union.
Since January 2021 – Deputy Chairman of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union.
PhD in Juridical sciences. Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation.
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