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THE PROBLEM OF RECOVERY OF PURE ECONOMIC LOSS
IN RUSSIAN CIVIL LAW

A.A. KOPYAKOV,
Graduate Student, Russian School of Private Law,
Junior Associate, “Tomashevskaya & Partners”

DOI: 10.24031/1992-2043-2020-20-1-146-196

The article is dedicated to the category of pure economic loss. The author determines
legal standing of the phenomenon, analyzes it from historical, dogmatical and legal
policy perspective. Special mention is made of the reimbursement of pure economic
loss. The article concludes with the analysis of the institute in context of Russian civil
law.


Keywords: pure economic loss; exclusionary rule; absolute and relative rights;
concurrence of actions; intervention to the contractual relations.

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Information about the author

Kopyakov A.A. (Moscow, Russia) – Graduate Student, Russian School of Private
Law, Junior Associate, “Tomashevskaya & Partners” (e-mail: ak@tp-law.com).

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