Article 1186. Definition of the law to be applied to civil relations involving foreign persons or civil relations complicated by another foreign element

1. The law to be applied to civil relations involving foreign nationals or foreign legal persons or to civil relations complicated by other foreign elemen including in cases where the object of civil rights is abroad, is determined on the basis of international treaties of the Russian Federation, this Code and other laws (para. The special features of the definition of the law to be applied by international commercial arbitration are set out in the Law on International Commercial Arbitration. 2. If it is not possible under paragraph 1 of this article to determine the law to be applied, the law of the country with which the civil relationship is complicated by the other law shall apply. 3. If an international treaty of the Russian Federation contains substantive rules to be applied to the relevant relationship, a definition of the The basis of conflict-of-laws rules applicable to matters fully settled by such substantive rules is excluded.