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Many issues of international civil procedure (recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, legal assistance, admissibility of foreign evidence, parallel proceedings, measures of indirect procedural coercion, etc.) are permeated by the category of «public policy». The development of the concept of natural human rights, along with the desire to harmonize and enhance the stability and predictability of public relations involving a foreign element, led to the idea of a common understanding of this category, expressed in the concept of «cross-border public policy». In this paper, the author questions the validity of the «cross-border public policy» concept, including in the context of modern socio-economic and political international conditions, as well as its ability to exert a real positive impact on the stability and predictability of cross-border public relations. Particular attention is given to the principle of «rejection of corruption» as a key element ensuring these objectives in international civil practice. The conducted research allowed us to formulate the conclusion that the concept of «cross-border public policy» does not reflect the new quality of public policy. Therefore, there is reason to doubt the validity of this concept.