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Krasno Global
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ONLINE ONLY EVENT
Zoom link for access: https://zoom.us/j/98072415115
(no RSVP necessary - just click the link)
Thursday, March 12, 2026 - 3.30pm EST
(8.30pm in the UK & 9.30pm in continental Europe)
Krasno Global Events Series
with
Lord (Charlie) Banner, KC
(House of Lords, UK & Keating Chambers, London)
and
Lady Tetyana Nesterchuk
(Fountain Court Chambers, London, UK)
“RUSSIA's FROZEN ASSETS,
the WAR in UKRAINE & Russia's role in the IRAN WAR
Should the EU use Russia's frozen sovereign assets for supporting Ukraine's war efforts and Ukrainian reconstruction? Is Russia supporting Iran militarily?
Lord Banner and Lady Nesterchuk
in conversation
with Prof. Klaus Larres
Location - ZOOM:
https://zoom.us/j/98072415115
Lord (Charlie) Banner, KC
Charlie Banner KC was called to the Bar of England & Wales in 2004 and to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2010. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2019 (at the age of 38, the youngest of the 2019 silks). He practises as a barrister from Keating Chambers. His experience includes 19 appeals in the UK Supreme Court and 13 cases in the EU Courts. He has significant judicial experience, having sat part-time as a Justice of the Astana International Finance Centre Court in Kazakhstan from 2019 until 2025 and thereafter in the Judicial Greffe in Jersey, Channel Islands.
Since 2024 he has been a Working Peer in the House of Lords, in which capacity he sits as a legislator in the upper house of the UK Parliament. He is also a Senior Fellow of the think tank Onward. He regularly writes and speaks about defence and foreign policy.
Lady Tetyana Nesterchuk
Tetyana Nesterchuk is a Barrister and Arbitrator at Fountain Court Chambers in London, UK. Tetyana came to the UK in 1999, as the first Ukrainian to study as an undergraduate on a scholarship at Oxford University. Since then, she worked as a lecturer in jurisprudence at Oxford University, as solicitor at Slaughter and May, specializing in corporate transactions, judicial assistant at the UK Supreme Court and as Barrister and Arbitrator at Fountain Court Chambers. Tetyana is internally displaced in Ukraine, having helped her family flee their home in Donetsk. She lives in London with her husband, Lord Banner, and her two children.
At Fountain Court Chambers Tetyana Nesterchuk acts as counsel and arbitrator in complex international commercial disputes in a variety of sectors, including banking, natural resources, energy, pharmaceuticals and education; with a particular interest on the effect of sanctions on arbitration.
As an arbitrator, Tetyana has had appointments under a number of applicable laws sitting as chair, sole and co-arbitrator over the last 5 years. As counsel, Tetyana has over 10 years’ experience acting in arbitrations as well as arbitral appeals in the English courts. She is a member of ICC Ukraine and sits on its Arbitration Committee, a member and a recommended arbitrator by the Ukrainian Arbitration Association and a member of the Energy Arbitration Club.
Previously, Tetyana was a lecturer in Trusts, Land, Tort and Roman law at Oxford University, a solicitor at Slaughter and May (specialising in corporate transactions), and a judicial assistant (law clerk) in the UK Supreme Court. Tetyana is a native Ukrainian and Russian speaker. Tetyana is consistently recognised by legal directories and other publications for her innovative work, having been named ‘Barrister of the Week’ by The Lawyer in May 2021 and one of the ten Stars at the Bar by the Legal Week in 2016. She is a contributor to articles on LexisNexis Arbitration and Westlaw UK.
Zoom link for accessing the event:
https://zoom.us/j/98072415115
*** We are most grateful for the financial support of the UNC Peace, War and Defense Curriculum (PWAD), the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS - https://tiss-nc.org/) and of course the UNC Department of History.
These sponsorships are greatly appreciated! ***
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