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Mykhailo Soldatenko

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Mykhailo Soldatenko is a visiting researcher on international agreements at Harvard Law School and a transitional justice researcher at Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Mykhailo is also an attorney at law in Ukraine and New York and a Ph.D. candidate in public international law at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He was previously a senior associate at the Asters law firm in Kyiv, where he practiced international dispute resolution.

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Constructive Ambiguity of the Budapest Memorandum at 28: Making Sense of the Controversial Agreement

Mykhailo Soldatenko   Tue, Feb 7, 2023, 8:31 AM

The 1994 Budapest Memorandum was purposefully designed to be ambiguous to allow its signatories to achieve significant goals. It is an important tool in the discourse on the current war waged by Russia in violation of the memorandum.