The Yalta conference and the international legal order (on the article by N. A. Chernyadyeva and Yu. V. Vasilyeva “The influence of the Yalta conference on the development of modern international law”)

The text is devoted to the critical analysis of the program article by N. A. Chernyadyeva and Yu. V. Vasilyeva on the legal foundations of the Yalta Conference. It is concluded that the analyzed article makes a methodological breakthrough in the history of understanding of Yalta-45 and brings the level of studying the problem to a fundamentally different level. The authors ‘ innovation in the legal analysis of a series of international conferences and the corpus of international legal acts is emphasized. The emphasis is placed on the fact that the authors managed to reach the problem of international conferences as a specific form outside the contractual sources of international law. Among the important achievements of the authors is a fundamental analysis of the legal foundations of the new world order laid precisely within the framework of the Yalta Conference. And also the construction of a new clear scheme of legal evidence of the legitimacy of the Yalta peace as a structure of the international world order. Among the noted shortcomings of the article: insufficient attention to the regional aspects of the Yalta Conference, in particular, the Polish and Japanese issues of the conference.