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Zakhar Tropin: Why Washington’s approach to punishing Russia won’t work
The U.S. State Department recently announced its support for the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian crimes of aggression against Ukraine in a hybrid “internationalized” format. This move echoes the myopic policies of Western countries toward Ukraine and has very little legal grounding. From a legal standpoint,