More than one million people have signed an online petition calling for a special international tribunal to try the russian president and his closest allies. Such courts have tried and convicted war criminals from randa, serbia and elsewhere before. Once someone is called a war criminal, what happens? What sort of investigation does that trigger? The president calling someone a war criminal doesn't really make any difference. It's very unusual to say about a serving head of state, he's a war criminal.
Joe Biden, among others, has called Vladimir Putin “a war criminal.” International tribunals have tried and convicted war criminals from Rwanda and Serbia: will Russia’s president suffer the same fate? The war in Ukraine will disrupt the world’s wheat market, with potentially grave political consequences in the Middle East. And three public-works projects in Mexico are stirring controversy.
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