Overview

• Vice Speaker Konstantin Kosachev said expert counts now put cases against Russia in the hundreds, with the total potentially approaching a thousand, and argued the strategy is already producing a boomerang effect.
• Kosachev called ICC arrest warrants for Russian leaders “absolutely illegal” and asserted that international legal bodies are losing credibility due to politicization.
• Committee chair Grigory Karasin accused Western states of pressuring the ICJ, ECHR, international arbitrations, the ICC, and advancing a special tribunal on alleged aggression in Ukraine with Russia as the main target.
• Karasin said sanctions and new restrictions are impeding Russian companies’ access to arbitration and the enforcement of awards, leaving successful claimants unable to obtain payment.
• Kosachev reported that Russia has initiated an appeal at the ICJ against ICAO Council decisions related to MH17 and is preparing further filings, while pointing to a China‑initiated Hong Kong mediation body and other alternative mechanisms.