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Under the Lotus dictum, international law is a body of rules agreed by states explicitly and tacitly. This principle is outlined in the 1904 French Court of Cassation case, known as the Lotus case, which established that a state is not bound by rules of international law that it has not explicitly accepted, but may be bound by them tacitly, through its conduct.<br /><br />Regarding the prevalence of treaty rules, under the Russian Constitution, treaty rules enjoy prevalence over the Russian legislation, the Russian Constitution, and the entire Russian legal system. This is in line with the general principle of international law that treaties are the supreme law of the land and take precedence over domestic laws and regulations.