Current Trends in International Arbitration in Russia: Protectionism or Preventionism?

The author examines whether states are still in a position to control arbitration, and what specific steps could be made to slow down the process of such rapid growth of the popularity and use of international arbitration by private parties. He argues that the state's legal intervention might become an obstacle to further development of international arbitration, whilst, as demonstrated, certain nations had been more successful in implementing such measures of preventive nature than others. The author chooses Russia as an example of a state having a consistently negative reaction to arbitration, and delves into detailed reasons of such a reaction.