Sentences with phrase «successor state»

When in December 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, the Russia was arguably recognized as the legal successor state of the Soviet Union and maintained the USSR's position on the UNSC.

Volyn was once part of Kievan Rus before becoming an independent local principality and an integral part of the Halych - Volynia, one of Kievan Rus successor states.

Successor states of the old Soviet Union are trying to fill the vacuum left by the demise of the Soviet academy of sciences.

What this means is that, in favorable cases (suitable chemical composition of the system and of the surroundings), there is a closed set of states such that the existence of one brings about another, and then the successor states, so that the system eventually returns to a state which is the same as the starting state.3 (As James Joyce put it, «Finagin.»)

Russia is the successor state to the Soviet Union, which in turn was the successor state to the Russian Empire.

At this time, it is quite early in their history to make remarks, and its still disputed if they will be a new nation, or a successor state to Syria writ large.

Israel is a successor state to the British Mandate of Palestine, in the same way that Finland is a successor state to the Russian Empire, therefore it has a duty to uphold the same treaties that the predecessor state has signed.

Then in 1917, Finland became independent from Russia and, as a successor state to Russia in the Finnish territory, it inherited the obligation to uphold the Treaty of Fredikshavn.

Nobody dispute that Russia is the successor state of the USSR, but does this count for measuring records?

Russia is the successor state to the «Empire of All the Russias».

However, none of the successor states were particularly Democratic, outside of one or two very brief interludes.

When Balls» Labour Government left office in 2010 with Britain's economy on the rocks, Labour Treasury Minister Liam Byrne famously left a note for his successors stating: «There's no money left.»

Despite its canine focus, the Soviet Union and its successor state Russia did launch a number of rhesus monkeys to space in the 1980s and 1990s, as part of a program called Bion.

While the cultures are not identical, the successor states were all under the Soviet yoke for so long that there are more similarities than differences.

The governing body that once ruled this area has fallen and divided into five Successor States (aka Great Houses).

These Successor States fight over control of the Inner Sphere.

Articles 24 and 25 of the ILC Articles on the Nationality of Natural Persons in Relation to the Succession of States (2000) provide that persons having their place of habitual residence in the successor state will receive the nationality of that state while the predecessor state «shall withdraw its nationality from persons concerned qualified to acquire the nationality of the successor State».

This issue can not be compared to consideration of social security claims with respect to acknowledgement of periods obtained in different states, whilst it is the issue of consequences of dissolution of the Czechoslovak federation and of division of costs on social security between the successor states.

«break up would be viewed as two successor states of equal legitimacy... and in that circumstance both successor States should lay equal claim to the continuation of treaty relations established in the past by the UK.

The main focus of the opinion revolved around the status of the successor state — Scotland — in international organizations: could they concurrently succeed to the UK's membership along with «rUK», or would they have to reapply?