ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the results of the activity of the Russian Ebola Response Team in the Guinea Republic, which faced many organizational, ethical and legal questions. It additionally pays particular attention to international legal issues that arise from various pandemic diseases that go beyond national jurisdictions. The emphasis is made on the problems of international responsibility that different actors have to bear in such cases. This includes the problem of implementing the mechanism of international responsibility, including the specifying of the relevant international court authorized to establish such liability and identify the specific forms of its realization.