Historical and legal prerequisites for the conclusion of a bilateral international agreement on legal assistance in civil matters between the Russian Federation and the States of the Ibero-American region

The report is based on the hypothesis that the conclusion of a bilateral international agreement on the provision of legal assistance in civil matters is preceded not only by well-established foreign economic and trade relations between the signatory States, but also by a number of historical and legal factors that necessitate the formation of a set of legal norms at both national and international levels. The report is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon called "Los Niños de la Guerra" in the Spanish socio-political press (and covers a group of Spanish children taken to the territory of the USSR during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)); the study of Old Believer communities in Argentina; the history of Soviet-Cuban foreign policy relations as factors which influenced the conclusion of bilateral international treaties on legal assistance in civil matters with specific States of the Ibero-American region. Of all the Latin American states, the Russian Federation has concluded international treaties in this area only with Cuba and Argentina, which, in our opinion, is due to historical and legal prerequisites, which at the present stage lead to a large number of marriage, family, inheritance and labor disputes complicated by foreign participation and are being considered by the judicial authorities of Russia, Spain, Argentina, Cuba and other Latin American States (for example, Panama in the absence of a bilateral international treaty), This is confirmed by judicial practice and the development of the institution of recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in Russia, Spain and Latin American countries.