war crimes
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As war crime suspect Putin is not welcome in South Africa
At 17 March the International Criminal Court issued a warrant of arrest against Vladimir Putin for alleged complicity in war crimes against Ukraine. Moscow shrugged it off, not recognising the ICC. But Putin failed the first litmus test: the South-African president Cyril Ramaphosa dissuaded him to come to the BRICS-summit in Johannesburg (22 till 24 August). It is a slap in the face for Putin and gives credit to ICC and South Africa, says legal expert Sergey Vasiliev of the University of Amsterdam. Elites might wonder what use is a leader who is isolated from the world.by Sergey Vasiliev -
Diary of Katya Savchenko: 'I can’t believe that we managed to escape'
From February 27 till March 31 the Russian army was fighting around and eventually occupying the Ukrainian town of Bucha, 30
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Why Russia needs to be humiliated in Ukraine
The West should take care not to humiliate Russia, since it suffered after the collaps of communism, communis opinio says. The
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