US EditionPutin seeks power to deploy troops abroad to 'protect' Russian citizens
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A bill backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin provides for allowing the armed forces to release Russians detained abroad if they are believed to have been convicted illegally.
The Kremlin rejects the legitimacy of foreign courts. Among other things, the International Criminal Court, which issued an arrest warrant against President Putin, does not recognise Moscow. To "protect" Russian citizens from the judiciary, the military should now receive new powers.
Putin wants to get Russian citizens from prisons abroad if he thinks they have been wrongly convicted, and he wants to use violence to do so.
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HandelsblattRussia's military doctrine already allows operations to protect its citizens abroad. Soon, the armed forces will be able to free imprisoned Russians. Kremlin chief Putin decides on this.
On the website of the State Duma, a DOD bill has been published that broadens the grounds for the use of the Armed Forces for rubies...
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