РОССИЙСКОЕ АНТИСАНКЦИОННОЕ РЕГУЛИРОВАНИЕ: СОВРЕМЕННОЕ СОСТОЯНИЕ И ПУТИ СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИЯ

Закон. 2021. Т. 3. № 3. С. 119–142.

Starzhenetsky V., Бутырина В. А., Kuritsyna K.

Nowadays economic sanctions represent one of the most popular mechanism of non-forcible coercion and exercising pressure on states. This phenomenon generates systemic challenges for national sovereignty, economic security, macroeconomic stability and sustainability. The logical response to the sanctions’ constraints is the creation of a protective legal mechanism allowing to minimise negative consequences of sanctions and effectively resist them. The  development of the  Russian legislation and ongoing experts’ discussions illustrate that such mechanism is now at its active stage of formation. In the  present article we make an attempt to systematise different “anti-sanction” measures, consider their nature and analyse possible ways of improvement and further development. To counter threats caused by sanctions, the Russian authorities are pursuing several interrelated goals, including: (1) demotivating and increasing the costs of economic sanctions for sanctioning states, (2) minimisation of the  existing negative effect for the  Russian economy and business entities, (3) reducing dependence on sanctioning states in critical sectors of the  Russian economy, as well as increasing overall resilience to sanctions’ restrictions. Each of these tasks implies implementation of a set of measures that are considered in this article. At the  same time, despite the  existing positive results, the Russian anti-sanction mechanism has its own drawbacks of systemic nature, namely, the lack of a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of the measures taken, significant gaps in the regulation and administration of the “counter-sanctions”, as well as insufficient use of the  potential of international law to resist economic sanctions.

Keywords: countermeasures, economic sanctions, специальные экономические меры, внешние экономические санкции, countersanctions, контрсанкции, anti-sanction regulation, противодействие экономическим санкциям, антисанкционный правовой механизм