Court of the Eurasian Economic Union: The Beginning

This article is based on 7.5 years of work experience in the Courts of the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) and Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and, therefore, finalizes the major problems the mentioned judicial institutions faced with in the beginning of their functioning. The Eurasian Economic Union in post-Soviet space was created five years ago with minimal established doctrinal and practical perceptions of how such an organization may interact with State sovereignty and whether it constituted the first step for the subsequent emergence of a new State. The authors believe that the EAEU should not be confused with the State and should be considered a new type of international organization, supranational, to which member States transferred competence. In this organization the Court plays an important role – its main function is to ensure the uniform application of Union law by hearing disputes and providing advisory opinions in various spheres of integration and, therefore, establish practice having an erga omnes effect in the law of the Union and national legal systems of States. Just as in other international courts, the main role in the EAEU Court functioning is played by judges nominated by national governments, sometimes without taking into account the sui generis character of their future work. Taking into consideration the valuable experience from other international courts and organizations (such as the International Court of Justice, European Court of Human Rights, International Law Association), the authors suggest ways for improvement of future Court functioning by creating mechanisms that would monitor the qualities of candidates for the post of the EAEU Court judge.This article is based on 7.5 years of work experience in the Courts of the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) and Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and, therefore, finalizes the major problems the mentioned judicial institutions faced with in the beginning of their functioning. The Eurasian Economic Union in post-Soviet space was created five years ago with minimal established doctrinal and practical perceptions of how such an organization may interact with State sovereignty and whether it constituted the first step for the subsequent emergence of a new State. The authors believe that the EAEU should not be confused with the State and should be considered a new type of international organization, supranational, to which member States transferred competence. In this organization the Court plays an important role – its main function is to ensure the uniform application of Union law by hearing disputes and providing advisory opinions in various spheres of integration and, therefore, establish practice having an erga omnes effect in the law of the Union and national legal systems of States. Just as in other international courts, the main role in the EAEU Court functioning is played by judges nominated by national governments, sometimes without taking into account the sui generis character of their future work. Taking into consideration the valuable experience from other international courts and organizations (such as the International Court of Justice, European Court of Human Rights, International Law Association), the authors suggest ways for improvement of future Court functioning by creating mechanisms that would monitor the qualities of candidates for the post of the EAEU Court judge

Impact of the EU timber regulation on Russian companies exporting wood and wood-based products

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Porous zinc oxide nanocrystalline film deposition by atmospheric pressure plasma: Fabrication and energy band estimation

Porous ZnO nanocrystalline films have drawn research attention due to improvement in gas sensing, adsorption, photocatalytic, and photovoltaic applications. However, scalable synthesis of porous nanostructures has been a challenge. Here, This paper reports a very easy, fast, and scalable one-step process for synthesis and deposition of porous ZnO nanocrystalline film by low-temperature atmospheric pressure plasma. The plasma is generated with radio frequency power using a metallic zinc wire as a precursor. Nanostructures have been synthesized and agglomerate to form a porous film at the substrate. Energy band structure of the deposited film has been investigated to understand the corresponding band alignment, which is relevant to many applications. An in-depth study of the grown nanostructured ZnO film has been included and characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, kelvin probe measurement, ultra-violet/visible absorption, and photoluminescence

VEGETATION COVER OF THE NORTH OF THE KORYAK REGION (KAMCHATSKY KRAI) AND ITS GEOBOTANICAL SUBDIVISION

Phytosociological data obtained in the Koryak District in 2011–2017 served for the subdivision of its vegetation cover. Most peculiar for the area, the Siberian dwarf pine (Pinus pumila) elfin woods occupy zonal mesic habitats of plains, plateaus and gentle mountain slopes. They form a zonal vegetation type of Beringian krummholz. The polar birch (Betula middendorffii) shrubs (up to 1.5 m tall) and dwarf-alder (Alnus fruticosa) thickets form another important vegetation type associated with Pinus pumila open woodlands. These two vegetation types form a distinctive subalpine vegetation belt at lower elevations (up to 150–250 m a. s. l.). The Alpine vegetation belt (up to 350–400 m) is characterized by a complex of dwarf-shrub and lichen-rich tundra communities that occur under conditions of a heat deficit and very short growing season. Azon al habitats, such as wide river valleys, are occupied by Chosenia arbutifolia, Populus suaveolens, Salix udensis and S. schwerinii flood-plain forests. In the floodplains of rivers and streams shrubby willow thickets widespread, predominated by Salix pulchra, S. alaxensis,S. krylovii and S. hastata. Several vegetation types, mainly coastal dwarf-shrub tundra, mires, salt marshes, mesic and hygric meadows, and isolated Betula ermanii groves are distributed on azonal sites. In waterlogged habitats of lowlands and depressions sedge-moss mires, Sphagnum-rich oligotrophic mires with 40–60 cm-thick peat layer, hillocky mires, and polygonal mires develop. Tussocky tundras, which develop in the intermountain depressions, are characteristic to the Anadyr-Penzhina lowland. As the typical component of them appear Carex lugens, Eriohorum vaginatum, Betulaexilis and other hyparctic dwarf-shrubs. In the western part of the Penzhina District larch (Larix cajanderi) open woodlands form the northern forest limit. In addition, there are groves of Japan birch (Betula platyphylla).Работа поддержана РФФИ, проект № 16-05-00736-а