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Foreign State Immunity: Soviet Doctrine and Practice*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

M.M. Boguslavsky
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The Soviet doctrine of foreign state immunity starts out from the principle that state sovereignty, the sovereign equality of states, underlies this rule of international law. Sovereignty is an indefeasible attribute of every state. It follows from the legal equality of states, and their mutual independence, that no state may wield power with regard to another state, its organs and its property.

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Netherlands Yearbook of International Law , Volume 10 , December 1979 , pp. 167 - 177
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1979

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15. Op.cit, pp. 468–472.

16. 54 AJIL (1960) p. 410.

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21. Op.cit, p. 725.