The Russian State Duma declared that further work of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague is inappropriate. The speaker of the Russian parliament, Boris Gryzlov, announced the preparation of such a statement on Tuesday, March 14. Today the deputies supported him. As stated in the State Duma statement, the ICTY was never able to prove the need for its creation. The deputies demanded that, in addition to the Milosevic case, all other cases of the tribunal be closed.