Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

When Russia and Ukraine Battle in Court, the West Wins

Even Putin has decided to rely on the Western legal system to help settle a bitter feud.

March 29, 2017 at 3:26 PM UTC

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

The glory of the gavel.
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In addition to the skirmishes in eastern Ukraine and a full-scale trade and economic war, a battle is raging between Russia and Ukraine in Western courts. For now, the score is just about even.

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