Russia will create its own international tribunal, announced by the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexandra Bastrykin: St. Petersburg International Legal Forum, June 29, 2022 – Vlast – St. Petersburg News
The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, said that Russia is considering the creation of its own international tribunal. He spoke about this on June 29 at a session of the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.
“Our contractors, this is already a matter of taste, preparing a tribunal against us. Do you know about it? <...> What should our probability be? At one meeting, this place will not be, this problem was discussed, we made a proposal. Let’s not waste time, we have the experience of the Nuremberg Tribunal, Tokyo, Khabarovsk, Leningrad, Kyiv, by the way. Probably, the Ukrainians have not forgotten them, that there was a Kyiv tribunal? You can watch on the Internet how Nazi criminals were hanged in Kyiv, ”said the head of the Russian Investigative Committee.
According to Bastrykin, the tribunal should include “everyone who is for us”: “Here is our colleague Ali from Iran (At the resonance of appearance, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyyed Mousavi. – Note ed.) is a vivid example. Have we begun to create justice in the East?”
“Why do we have all justice somewhere in Europe, huh? Don’t you think this is strange, colleagues? They have sanctions, courts. UN Court, ECtHR, court in The Hague. They manage everything, and we are like serfs, ”the chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation shared his interests.