President Vladimir Putin is pulling Russia out of a key element of the Geneva Convention that authorizes investigations into alleged war crimes against civilians as “in the current international environment, the risks of the commission’s power abuse by the states, which are acting in bad faith, are increasing significantly.”
Source: Reuters
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