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Author : B. Pyadyshev
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of Science (History)
THE INTERNATIONAL LAWDepartment of the Russian Diplomatic
Academy has put out a Dictionary of International Law edited by Doctor
of Law SA. Yegorov who is also a judge at the International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda. Taking part in compiling the dictionary were noted
Russia's international affairs experts with a considerable experience in
research and teaching. Many of them worked for many years for Russia's
institutions and ministries, including the Russian Foreign Ministry and
its missions in other countries. Some of the contributors also worked
for many years for the UN and other international bodies, including the
European Court of Human Rights and international criminal tribunals
of the UN. M.M. Biryukov, G.M. Velyaminov, A.I. Kovler, M.N. Kopylov,
Ye.G. Lyakhov, Yu.S. Romashev, B.R. Tuzmukhamedov, and S.V. Cher-
nichenko need no introduction.
This new edition follows up on its two previous editions which appeared
in 1982 and 1986. The third edition is dedicated to the memory of Boris Mikhailovich Klimenko, the founder
of this dictionary and a prominent international law expert. A range of entries written for the first and
second editions are included almost in the same form they were written by the contributors to the first and
second editions M.M. Boguslavsky, V.I. Kuznetsov and V.N. Fedorov. The third edition also includes the list
of Latin words and expressions pertaining to legal vocabulary which most certainly widens the reader's cul-
tural and professional horizons.
The compilers extensively used agreements, treaties and documents of modern-day international legal doc-
trine and practice. More than 900 entries contain definitions and concise description of categories and terms
which make up the vast body of concepts of modern-day public international law. Entries relating to fun-
damental principles of international law, the legal foundations of the functioning of the system of interna-
tional security have been creatively reworked and are supplied with examples of foreign policy activities of
Russia and other states. Of considerable theoretical and practical interest are the entries dealing with human
rights protection under the international law and international humanitarian law. These entries reflect mod-
ern-day concepts of relations governed by law which arise in the humanitarian sphere of interpersonal rela-
tionships.
A word of advice to the compilers of the dictionary. In this age of Internet and a rapid development and
growing use of modern information technologies, it could be a good idea to supply every entry describing
an international agency (organization) of an international treaty with their website reference. This is likely to
add speed, quality and convenience of working with this dictionary. It would be also a good idea to consider
the possibility of an electronic version of the dictionary and post it on the site of the Diplomatic Academy
of the RF Foreign Ministry.
In conclusion I would like to say that the practical importance of the dictionary is far reaching because given
the rapidly changing international relations and new international-law realities a fairly wide circle of persons
will need answers to questions related to international law and international relations, and a source to look
for and get appropriate interpretation of current rules of international law.
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International Law From A to Z