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2.16 Politics - misc
● International relations
Blinken calls on all Americans to leave Russia 'immediately' after journalist arrest. The U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on American citizens to leave Russia, after Moscow arrested Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, on espionage charges on March 30.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will store tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus on March 26 in response to the UK announcement that it was sending depleted uranium shells to Ukraine. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says new sanctions cannot influence Russia’s plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus (because Russia is “determined to proceed”)
Hungary votes in favour of Finnish accession to NATO. Hungary's parliament has finally approved Finland's NATO membership bid after months of delays, European Pravda reported on March 27.
ICC issues arrest warrants for Putin on March 18, Russian official tied to kidnapping of Ukrainian children. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian official allegedly overseeing the forced deportations of Ukrainian children to Russia.ICC issues arrest warrants for Putin, Russian official tied to kidnapping of Ukrainian children. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian official allegedly overseeing the forced deportations of Ukrainian children to Russia.
Biden says that Putin has committed war crimes and the ICC charges justified. "He's clearly committed war crimes," Biden added.
Germany will have to arrest Putin if he enters its territory. Germany will have to arrest Russian Vladimir Putin if he enters German territory and if the International Criminal Court asks contracting states for enforcement, the country's Justice Minister Marco Buschmann has said. Meanwhile, Alexander Bastrykin, head of Russia's Investigative Committee, said on March 19 he had ordered a legal assessment of a German minister's statement that dictator Vladimir Putin will be arrested if he comes to Germany
"Of course, all the problems began after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Why? Because the then world order - in a sense it still exists today - was built after World War II by the countries that won that war. First of all, the United States and the Soviet Union," Putin said in Ulan-Ude on March 14. Putin stressed that the system of the bipolar world "began to crumble down" after the
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