Abstract:  
The subject of this research is the establishment of the system of dispute settlement that emerges in the relations of public or private nature within the Latin American integration union MERCOSUR. It is a known fact that the task of the modern international economic integrations is the achievement of certain success in the process of combination of the economies of the member-states, the unification of the foreign policy, collaboration of the national economies. A quite significant role belongs to the system of regulation of conflict situations that appear between the states – members of the integration, as well as between the private parties. Namely this system has to appropriately react to the stages of economic development, ensure adherence to the norms of integration and their unified interpretation. The author concludes that the detailed analysis of the international documents enacted on various stages of development of the integration union, allows following the phases of establishment of this system, determining institutional structures involved into the dispute settlement, and examining the questions of their competency based on the currently existing judicial practice.
 

Abstract: The payment of an external debt of the Soviet Union and dividing of its foreign assets was a serious problem, appearing due to the breakup of the Soviet Union.  The former Soviet Republic had to figure out the legal capacity of the Russian Federation, agree upon the means of payment of an external state debt, which was a necessary and obligatory condition for the division of state property abroad. The generally recognized way of regulating disputes in international relations is an international treaty. This article contains analysis of the attempts to achieve agreement among the former Soviet republics by conclusion of international multilateral treaties within the frameworks of the USSR and later the CIS. In addition to the analysis of problems regarding implementation of international state obligations, the author pays attention to the debts of the former USSR to the private persons, and various approaches towards this issue.  The object of studies in this article includes specific features of solving the problems regarding payment of external debt and dividing the foreign assets of the former USSR as well as the de facto results.