Although it sounds nice to say that one hundred and twenty-three countries recognise the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Russia stopped by decree in 2016. The powerful rarely accept restrictions on their freedom of action. At the time of the vote in Rome in 1998 on the establishment of this court, the United States, Israel, China, Iraq and Iran, Libya and Yemen, among others, voted against it. At the time, it seemed that it would be yet another court to prosecute crimes committed on the fringes of Western culture. The tribunal began in 2002, in the era of the “war on terror”, still far from the idea of a major war in Europe. At a time when Jean Baudrillard argued that “the Gulf War did not happen” and we only saw a series of flares on screens, somewhere far away over an anonymous desert. Ukraine is not a member of the Rome Convention. Only in 2014, after the loss of Crimea, Ukraine ask the ICC to investigate its territory.
There is much on the world map where the ICC’s jurisdiction does not extend.
Yet the court acts as if it wants to be the voice of the average and the weak, a voice that can make a difference in a world that constantly reports surprisingly much about every event against the interests of the powerful.
I think it is high time to demand that invitations to the Embassy of the Russian Federation be sent to Mr Putin by name at every opportunity, after all there are so many interesting events every week. And every opportunity is a good opportunity to get to know each other better.
As the slogan in a textbook crossword puzzle for Russian learners says: “We are neighbours on this planet”. In crossword puzzles, besides enthusiasm and ideas, it is absolutely crucial to fit into the squares. This can work, even against the strong.
Send invitations \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0433\u043e\u0441\u043f\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043d\u0430 \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0438\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0430 \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0430, at every opportunity, “maybe it will work”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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