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Extradition in the USSR’s Treaties on Legal Assistance with Non-“Socialist” States

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George Ginsburgs
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Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international , Volume 29 , 1992 , pp. 92 - 141
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2 Ved. SSSR 1974 No. 19, Art. 293; SDD, 30, 91–100; 941 UNTS, 114–56.

3 Ved. SSSR 1982 No. 45, Art. 839.

4 Ved. SSSR 1984 No. 15, Art. 213.

5 Ved. SSSR 1986 No. 48, Art. 1010.

6 Ved. SSSR 1986 No. 28, Art. 525.

7 Ved. SSSR 1987 No. 15, Art. 199.

8 Kravtsov, B. V. , in Mezhdunarodnaia zhizn 1989 No. 2, at 21 Google Scholar. Apropos Ghana, the Soviet ambassador to Ghana in 1974–79 recounts an interesting story that bears on the topic:

In Ghana, there lived around 90 Soviet citizenesses married to Ghanaians who had studied in the Soviet Union. The majority of the families were harmonious, the Soviet women quickly adapted to the unusual African conditions and traditions, learned the English language and many worked in their field of expertise. But there were also those who left their husbands and even children and engaged in prostitution. In one of the Ghanaian newspapers an item was published under the loud headline ‘Russian prostitutes crowd the town of Kumasi.’ In Accra, a group of Soviet citizenesses opened the ‘Flamingo’ bar, in fact running it as a brothel.

I informed Moscow of this and sought consent to their expulsion from Ghana, particularly so when the Ghanaian authorities did not know how to get rid of them since they were restrained by the fact that these women possessed Soviet passports. When the embassy contacted the Ghanaian authorities with a request for assistance in this matter, they reacted at once. Given that these women had not maintained ties with their husbands, the Ghanaian police suggested that they leave the confines of Ghana. True, the affair stalled because the citizenesses declared that they did not have the means to return home. Then I asked for permission to dispatch them on board Soviet vessels lying in the ports of Ghana. I got the permission. But then the captains of the ships started objecting … Nevertheless, we did manage to send off a few women that way. But many of them after bribing Ghanaian officials and even their former husbands, obtained certificates attesting that they led normal family lives, remained in Ghana and continued pursuing their ancient profession.

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38 Polents, op. cit. supra, note 11, at 255. See also Bazhenov, N. A., “Nerushimost print-sipov Niurnberga i sotrudnichestvo gosudarstv v presledovanii natsistskikh voen-nykh prestupnikov,” Uroki Niurnberga, Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii, Moscow, November 11–13, 1986 Google Scholar (Doklady uchastnikov konferentsii), 11–20 (Moscow, 1988, Vol. 3); Valeev, R. M., “Niurnbergskie printsipy i voprosy vydachi lits, sover-shivshikh prestupleniia protiv chelovechestva,” Ibid., 149–67 (Moscow, 1986, Vol. 1).Google Scholar

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58 Galenskaia, op. cit. supra, note 28, at 239.

59 Menzhinskii, op. cit. supra, note 1, at 310.

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62 Ibid.

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76 Ved. SSR 1980 No. 34 Art. 690.

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104 To that effect, see Krivopalov, A., “Nashi syshchiki na rodine Sh. Kholmsa,” Izvestiia, April 9, 1991 Google Scholar, who correctly observes that at the moment the cupboard is bare here. “Dvesti piatdesiat dogovorov,” Mezhdunarodnaia Zhizn’, 1991, No. 8, 158.

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107 Report on the USSR, June 29, 1990 at 33; New York Times, December 1, 1989, at A5.

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114 Izvestiia, August 27, 1991.

115 Izvestiia, August 2, 1990; Moscow News, 1991, No. 5, at 7.

116 Izvestiia, September 14, 1991.

117 Report on the USSR, 1991, No. 31, at 48.

118 Izvestiia, September 26, 1991.

119 Ibid., September 24, 1991.