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Ruling of the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation

Observations by Alexei Kostin

Judicial Collegium for civil cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation consisting of the Chairman G.V. Manohina the Judges A.M. Maslov and V.N. Pirozhkov heard in a session on 20 March, 1997 a petition of X (an Italian company) requesting enforcement on the territory of the Russian Federation of the foreign arbitral award regarding the private complaint of Y (a Russian JSC) against the ruling of the Vladimir Region Court of 17 January 1997.

Having heard the report of the RF Supreme Court judge A.M. Maslov and Y’s representative – Mr. Y, who supported the arguments of the complaint, and the representative of X – Mr. D, who requested that the ruling remain unchanged, the Judicial Collegium for civil cases of the Supreme Court

HAS ESTABLISHED THE FOLLOWING:

In 1993-1994 X (Italy) and Y (Vladimir Region, Russian federation) entered into four contracts regarding sales of various goods. During the performance of the mentioned contracts disputes occurred and G filed a request for arbitration with the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce in order to resolve the disputes. Y submitted a  counterclaim.