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March 25 (Reuters) – Russia Speaker of the Parliament on Saturday International A crime Prohibition of the activity of the Court (ICC). offer did.

Putin’s ally Vyacheslav Volodin said that Russia legislation should be amended to prohibit any activity of the IMF in Russia and to punish anyone who provides “aid and support” to the IMF.

“It is necessary to prepare amendments to the legislation prohibiting any activity of the BCM in the territory of our country,” Volodin wrote on Telegram.

Volodin, USAso that its own citizens would never be tried by the Hague tribunal law said that he accepted and that Russia should continue this work.

According to him, Russia Any assistance or support to the BCM within it should be punishable by law.

International A crime The court accused Putin of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine earlier this month military accused him of a crime and issued an arrest warrant. It was reported that Putin’s individual crime there are reasonable grounds to believe that he is responsible.

Russian officials have warned that since the last day of 1999, Russia higher leader Putin imprisonment an attempt to do so will be considered a declaration of war against the world’s largest nuclear power.

BCM Ukraine in the first warrant related to the illegal deportation of children and people from February 24, 2022 Ukraine Putini on suspicion of illegal transfer from the territory to the Russian Federation imprisonment called to do.

The Kremlin says that the ICC imprisonment decision is extremely partisan, but meaningless in relation to Russia. Russian officials deny war crimes in Ukraine and the West of Ukraine military He says he ignores what he says about his crimes.

Russia, USA and large powers such as China are not members of the ICC, although 123 countries, incl Britain, Franceis a member state of the Rome Statute, including some former Soviet republics such as Germany and Tajikistan.

Ukraine Although not a member of the ICC, Kyiv gave him jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed in his territory.

Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Edited by Stephen Coates

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Guy Foulconbridge

Thomson Reuters

As head of the Moscow bureau, Guy covers Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Prior to Moscow, Guy managed Brexit news as London bureau chief (2012-2022). On Brexit night, his team delivered one of Reuters’ historic victories – breaking Brexit news first to the world and financial markets. Guy graduated from the London School of Economics and started his career as an intern at Bloomberg. He spent more than 14 years covering the former Soviet Union. He speaks Russian fluently. Contact: +447825218698

2023-03-25 11:11:01
Source – reuters

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