CONFLICTS OF LAW IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF CRIMINAL COURT JUDGMENTS AMONG CIS MEMBER STATES

Abstract

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 generated an acute normative vacuum in the sphere of cross-border criminal justice cooperation among the successor states. In an effort to restore and institutionalise the legal ties previously maintained within a unified legal order, the newly independent republics forming the Commonwealth of Independent States concluded a series of multilateral instruments designed to regulate mutual legal assistance, recognition of judicial decisions and the enforcement of criminal court judgments.