Attempts to Regulate the Legal Status of Private Military and Security Companies in the Russian Federation and Ukraine Cover Image

TENTATIVELE DE REGLEMENTARE A STATUTULUI JURIDIC AL COMPANIILOR MILITARE ȘI DE SECURITATE PRIVATE ÎN FEDERAȚIA RUSĂ ȘI UCRAINA
Attempts to Regulate the Legal Status of Private Military and Security Companies in the Russian Federation and Ukraine

Author(s): Alexandr Cauia, Mihail Poalelungi
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Military policy, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Universitatea Liberă Internațională din Moldova
Keywords: International humanitarian law; private military and security companies; national legislation; Russian Federation; Ukraine;

Summary/Abstract: Russian Federation and Ukraine are two ex-Soviet states that do not admit in the national legislation related to ensuring the security of the state any form of involvement of the private factor that could threaten or limit the exclusive and sovereign right of the state to use armed force However, the experience of the Russian Federation turns out to be quite extensive in terms of using the specific services of private military and security companies officially registered outside the country Also, after the events of 2014, in Ukraine there is an intensification of the legal regulation initiatives of the legal status of private military and security companies In this article, it is proposed to analyze the essence of the initiatives for legal regulation of the status of private military and security companies in the Russian Federation and Ukraine, in order to highlight the necessity and importance of this process, as well as the specific approaches in the states under analysis.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 19-26
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian
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