Gleb Bogush

On July 13, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration would seek to “dismantle” the International Criminal Court (ICC), “brick by brick, if necessary.” President Vladimir Putin, for whom the ICC has issued an arrest warrant, must have been rubbing his hands with glee when he heard. U.S. hostility to the only permanent international criminal court is hardly new or out of step with the Republican Party. In 2002, the George W.

At the G7 summit in Évian, France, the possibility of organizing a trilateral meeting between the presidents of the United States and Ukraine, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, and Russian President Vladimir Putin was discussed seriously.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, the Central Bank of Russia’s assets have been frozen worldwide. The bulk of them are held in the European Union, mainly in Belgium under the management of Euroclear. For the past three years, the fate of these funds has remained uncertain. Many countries and politicians supporting Ukraine have repeatedly called for confiscating and transferring these assets to Kyiv.