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The applicability of private law of de-facto regimes poses particular conflict-of-law challenges for the state and its respective authorities involved, in particular courts. This article analyses these challenges in the light of the Luhansk and...

Migration processes revolving around the unsolved situation of Ukraine’s Eastern Donbas Region raise various legal questions and difficulties in the context regulation and recognition as well. This article sheds light on the political and legal...

The military annexation of Crimea of February 2014 and the establishment of the socalled “Donetsk National Republic” and “Luhansk National Republic” under the control of the Russian Federation have led to a complicated situation with regard...

Comparing the structures of the general contracts, the consumer law, the general obligations and the specific obligations it is striking that the new Moldovan Civil Code, which came into force on 1st March 2019, is widely influenced by the DCFR of...

The aim of the paper is to conduct a comparative analysis of regulations regarding compensation for wrongful detention on remand in three continental law states - Germany, France and Poland - in order to identify the similarities and differences...

This paper focuses on ‘absolute’ relationships in private law that do not involve any influence exerted by persons - legal entities or individuals - on external items, whether tangible or otherwise. Such relationships are non-property in nature....

The article analyzes the provisions of the new Moldovan CC about tort law. It describes the similarities and differences between the Moldovan CC and the sixth book of the DCFR. (The article reproduces the revised text of a lecture the author gave on...

Since 2012, the legal possibilities for state blocking of web content in Russia have been largely expanded by amendments to the Federal Information Act (Art. 15.1.-15.8. Federal law of 27 July 2006 No. 149-FZ). Therefore, Internet censorship has...

Democracy requires well-functioning mass media, i.e. media that are professional, diverse and independent providing accurate, unbiased and accessible information. Pervasive and systematic propaganda, which is a key warfare tool of “hybrid wars”...

The situation of media freedom, the current problems of media regulation in Hungary has been a constant issue of the European agenda since 2010. Despite the fierce criticism of domestic, European and international organizations, neither the legal...

This article provides an in-depth insight into the “Polish peculiarities” that substantially continue to affect the current situation in the country - a country where the rule of law is in danger, where politics and society are dramatically...