Without enduring such an offense

Russia has ceased to be a participant in the Roman Statute of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. This is stated at the disposal of President Vladimir Putin, published on the official portal of legal information.

"To accept the proposal of the Ministry of Justice of Russia, agreed with the Russian Foreign Ministry and other interested federal executive bodies, with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, on sending the UN Secretary General of the UN notification not to become a member of the Roman Statute of the International Criminal Court," the document says, which comes into force from the date of its signing.

In addition, the president instructed the MID to send the corresponding notification to the UN Secretary General.

Mus "did not justify hopes assigned to him and did not become a truly independent, authoritative body of international justice" is noted in the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry. In addition, the foreign policy expressed dissatisfaction with the position of the court in the Hague on the events of 2008 in Georgia. "In such conditions, we can hardly talk about trust in the international criminal court," the document says.

The wording of the Hague Tribunal, which equated the events in the Crimea and the Donbass with the military conflict between Ukraine and Russia, contradict reality, said presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. However, according to him, Russia's exit from the jurisdiction of the Mus is in no way connected with them. "This is the position that the country took, guided by national interests," Peskov said. What kind of interests are meant, he did not explain.

The Roman Statute is an international agreement that has established the International Criminal Court. He was adopted at a diplomatic conference in Rome on July 17, 1998 and entered into force on July 1, 2002. In total, the Roman statute signed 139 states, ratified 115. Russia signed the Roman statute on September 13, 2000, but did not ratify it.

On Tuesday, the prosecutor of the Mus Fatu Bensud said that the situation in the annexed by Crimea and Sevastopol is " equivalent to the international armed conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation." At the same time, military law spreads not only for the time of the direct seizure of the peninsula. But for the entire period of the occupation. "The right of international armed conflicts is applicable after March 18, 2014 (when an agreement was signed in Moscow on the inclusion of the peninsula in Russia. - Ed.) To the extent that the situation in the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol will be equivalent to the continuing state of the occupation," the prosecutor emphasized.

Russia has repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with the actions of the Mus. In January, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Moscow in the future could reconsider its attitude to the international criminal court due to the investigation of crimes committed in 2008 in South Ossetia. "In the light of the last decision, Russia will be forced to revise in the principle of the question of the attitude to the Mus," Zakharova said.