Tell him that we invite him to sign a treaty acknowledging our suzerainty over his country.

International dependency relationships such as “suzerainty” or “protectorate” warranted treating the dominant State as internationally responsible for conduct formally attributable to the dependent State.

As a result, any more Russian efforts to establish eveninformal suzerainty over the Soviet successor states are, followingthe dismemberment of Georgia, likely to meet Chineseresistance.

But the Kremlin wants to avoid this, owing to Kadyrov’sgrowing power and its general unease with a Russian Muslim elitethat, while formally acknowledging Russian suzerainty, increasinglydemands a redistribution of power within the Russian Federation.

Despite declaratory remarks of willingness to solve the Cyprus problem, its actions confirm its dedication to its ab initio pursuit of controlling Cyprus by partitioning it geographically into two ethnically clean parts, with Turkey securing rights of suzerainty and the “right” of intervention in Cyprus.

In the Robert E. Brown case, for example, the Arbitral Tribunal held that the authority of Great Britain, as suzerain over the South African Republic prior to the Boer War, “fell far short of what would be required to make her responsible for the wrong inflicted upon Brown.” It went on to deny that Great Britain possessed power to interfere in matters of internal administration and continued that there was no evidence “that Great Britain ever did undertake to interfere in this way.” Accordingly the relation of suzerainty “did not operate to render Great Britain liable for the act