Kluwer: What Russian Courts Actually Enforce: A Practical Map of the Arbitral Award Enforcement Architecture Post-2022
Published on June 27, 2026
Since 2022, the conventional wisdom among Western counsel has been that enforcing foreign arbitral awards in Russia is not worth attempting. That advice is often correct. But it is becoming imprecise. Russian courts do enforce some foreign awards and refuse others, and the pattern of refusals and grants is not random.