State succession — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (“Soviet Union”) — Foreign property — Dissolution of a State — Whether the Russian Federation becoming sole owner of property abroad previously held by the Soviet Union — Co-ownership of foreign property of the former Soviet Union — Agreements regarding State succession with respect to foreign property — Soviet State-owned company — Property used by a shipping company from Ukraine

Sources of international law — Customary international law — Persistent objector — State practice — Treaties — Treaty on the Legal Succession in respect of the External Public Debt and Assets of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1991 — The law of Austria