Basics of regulation of the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in Africa

... legislation provides for such agreements, does not meet the criteria for being classified as an international interstate treaty in the classical sense⁴⁷. Such an agreement bears a vague resemblance to the concordats (conventions) concluded by the Roman Catholic Church as a religious organization and the “Holy See” (Vatican) as a state with Catholic countries. The most rational approach to be adopted here would be to define such treaties as “agreements of a special nature” (sui generis),...