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After being cancelled by COVID in 2020 and going virtual in 2021, the Symposium on the American Indian at Northeastern State University was back to being in person – mostly
but this is a major question. it is not, you know, the u.s. is not going to be able to necessarily carry out the prosecutions of russian officials themselves. there s a much larger question of which court would undertake these allegations. these accusations of russian war crimes. you heard that in the first question there from the ap s matt lee. where would they actually be held accountable. the first instinct would be the international criminal court, but as was noted by the ambassador, the u.s. is not a member of the international criminal court. so what the u.s. can do on its own is carry out prosecutions in its own courts, in domestic courts, in american courts. that s one thing that the u.s. can do. the ambassador also noting that the ukrainians obviously have their own courts in which, where russians could be prosecuted.