Introduction

As discussed in the second half of this article (and as the majority of practitioners and scholars in this field will know) many CIS countries have made major strides in recent years to establish themselves as jurisdictions conducive to international commercial arbitration. These developments are, of course, greatly to be welcomed. Nevertheless, there are various reasons why commercial parties with business interests in the CIS would still be better advised to continue to arbitrate substantial disputes in traditionally favoured Western European jurisdictions, at least for the ...