When was the ICC created, by whom, and for what purpose? The International Criminal Court emerged as an institutional response to the mass crimes of the twentieth century. The Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals established the principle of individual criminal responsibility for international crimes, but they were temporary bodies of the Second World War's victorious powers. On 9 December 1948, the UN General Assembly tasked the International Law Commission with studying the feasib

Do you have doubts about the fairness of sanctions against Medvedchuk or Yanukovych? What about sanctions against Russian propagandists? And what about Bohdan, Bereza, Arestovych, Mendel, Poroshenko, and others? Is our attitude to sanctions determined by personal sympathy or antipathy towards those targeted by them? Or by our sympathy or antipathy towards those imposing them? And do we trust the process through which sanctions are applied? Because trust in the process is what

Former Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has called for elections to be held. Elections during wartime: the restoration of democracy or another beauty contest? Fedorov's call has reignited the debate, but let us ask ourselves whether elections change Ukraine's future if we are once again being offered a choice between representatives of the same system, without clear programmes, genuine competition, or any real possibility for military personnel not just to vote but to stand

On 1 April 2025, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal introduced a bill called the Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025 in the Senate. It was immediately referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. The sponsors were candid about their motivation to raise the cost of aggression high enough to force Moscow into genuine negotiations. At the time, relations between the Trump administration and Ukraine were lukewarm. The tensi

All for my ratings. Nothing against my ratings. Nothing for anyone else's ratings. That, in short, is how one might describe President Zelensky's personnel policy — paraphrasing the well-known saying of the fascist dictator Mussolini.. Why is the appointment and dismissal of ministers by the president a problem in Ukraine? There are presidential republics where the president serves as head of government and may appoint ministers — the United States, for example. However, the

Among the first meetings Péter Magyar held after his parliamentary election victory were those with representatives of the Hungarian minorities in Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine. According to László Gubík, the leader of the ethnic Hungarian political party in Slovakia ‘Hungarian Alliance’, the incoming prime minister gave assurances that the policy of supporting ethnic Hungarians beyond Hungary's borders would continue. And indeed it has: on 21 April, in a phone call