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Russia’s top senator blasts some countries’ attempt to export their internal law

According to Valentina Matviyenko, "legal nihilism" recognizes no borders
Speaker of the upper house of Russia’s parliament Valentina Matviyenko Russian Federation Council press service
Speaker of the upper house of Russia’s parliament Valentina Matviyenko
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MOSCOW, May 29. /TASS/.Attempts to globalize the internal law of some countries breed disorder and chaos throughout the world and threaten to kill the very idea of law in the long-term perspective, Speaker of the upper house of Russia’s parliament Valentina Matviyenko said on Tuesday.

"We witnessed the degeneration of the world order towards force over the past quarter of a century. This resulted in the trans-nationalization of some states’ internal laws and [their] attempts to use it outside national jurisdictions and even as an undisguised export of its internal law for the purpose of substituting or replacing international law," Matviyenko said at the ceremony of opening the Primakov Readings international forum.

"This sort of practice propagates disorder, chaos and arbitrariness in international life and in the long-term perspective [it] threatens to seriously undermine and even kill the very idea of law," Russia’s top senator added.

Legal nihilism recognizes no borders: "once it is allowed into one sphere, we inevitably risk the spread of this cancerous growth to all the other spheres," Matviyenko emphasized.

The third international scientific and expert forum, the Primakov Readings, on the topic: "Risks of an Unstable World," runs in Moscow from May 29-30.