Wtf are you talking about? What court? Who has criminal jurisdiction in Russia but Russian state?
Hague does not investigate poisonings, wrongful imprisonments (Navalnuy) or murders (Nemtsov). It investigates war crimes.
You have to be ******* stupid to not notice that any serious opposition to Putin always ends up in jail or dead.
You have to be a ******* dupe to think that all the Russian figures keep jumping out the window on their own.
In America we have stiff political fight all the time, opposition politicians do not get killed off, or poisoned, nobody jailed under ridiculous charges, without jury of peers.
Russians that don't like Putin constantly have a question: "If not Putin, then who?" because the state makes damn sure no one gets an answer to that question, by any means necessary.
There is no freedom of speech or true political contest in Russia. There has never been peaceful transfer of power as a result of an election. That's a fact and the very reason Russia today finds itself in this deep ditch.
I really don't know how you post the shit you do and then look yourself in the mirror. Have you no shame? Russia is an authoritarian state and you are it's useful idiot.
Look at all of the cases the international court of justice listens to:
www.icj-cij.org
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If the head of state of one of the most powerful nations on earth
(the largest nation territorially and a major nuclear power) is murdering people as you claim, I'm sure a case could be open to assess the evidence and make a decision on the issue. Politically that would legitimize the charges made against Putin and would negatively affect Russia diplomatically, economically.etc. More people in positions of power, both politically and financially, might come around to believing that Putin is indeed a despot murdering his serious opposition. The now rhetoric and conspiracy theories, would cease to be that, and would have much more weight. You could cite the fact that an internationally recognized court of justice ruled that Putin is indeed a murderer.
Provide a list of all of the people Putin supposedly murdered and I'll take a look at it.
In America, we have a plutocracy
(rule of the rich) and any serious opposition to that ruling class ends up like this:
Our political system is rigged for the ruling class, at the great expense of the American public. Any individual or nation that seriously challenges that power structure, is eliminated
(not necessarily violently, but in one way or another, those troublemakers are dealt with). Bernie Sanders is a good example of someone "dealt with" in a non-violent way, assuming he wasn't threatened with violence. Bernie the so-called "democratic socialist" fell in line with the establishment, a bit too quickly.
Despite all of Russia's flaws and that of its leader/s, the United States has no moral high ground upon which to stand and point its crooked finger. The US government has committed some of the most egregious crimes against civilian populations around the world under the pretext of "spreading freedom and liberal democracy". So give it a break.
Ukraine isn't a democracy either. Its present anti-Russian state-system is built on a foreign-orchestrated coup d'etat that banned all serious political opposition to its power. It also restricts the freedom of the press and shells its own civilian population in the Donbas via right-wing, ultra-nationalist extremists with Swastika tattoos.
An honest look at Putin and Russia:
I don't like Putin, I'm a Marxist and Communist, I would rather have the communist party in charge of Russia, so don't think I'm a friend of Putin. However, looking at his non-communist opposition, I would rather have Putin in power than them.