Putin Will be Taken Out Before Any War Crimes Trial—Russia Analyst
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- 27 Mar 2023
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Russian President Vladimir Putin could be "silenced" by his country's elite before he has the chance to face justice at the court in The Hague, a Russia analyst has suggested.
Putin was made a global outlaw on March 17 when he was accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of the illegal deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia during his full-scale invasion of the neighboring country.
The arrest warrant legally obliges the ICC's 123 member states to carry out the arrest warrants on both Putin and Russia's presidential commissioner for children's rights, Maria Lvova-Belova. All ICC states—including every member of the European Union, most African states, all Latin and South American states except Cuba and Nicaragua, and even Tajikistan—are legally required to arrest Putin if he ever steps foot on their territory, the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) has note d. The International Criminal Court has issued 2 warrants of arrest.There is a chance that the Russian leader might not even make it to The Hague.
Vlad Mykhnenko, an expert in the post-communist transformation of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union at the U.K.'s University of Oxford, told Newsweek that Putin could be silenced by the siloviki, an elite group of Russian businessmen and leaders.
"Given Putin's extensive connections across Europe and what he could potentially tell the judges about corruption and dodgy dealings between Moscow and major Western capitals, there will be a lot of incentive to silence him before The Hague," Mykhnenko said. Read More…
