On Wednesday, the UN’s top court based in The Hague declined Ukraine’s request to introduce provisional measures against Russia and disregarded its claims of “aggression” in Crimea. Commenting on the decision, political analyst Vyacheslav Smirnov explained to Sputnik why Kiev can’t stop itself from blaming and demonizing Russia.

It declined Kiev’s request to introduce provisional measures against Moscow over the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (ICSFT).

The ICJ said Ukraine initiated legal proceedings against Russia on January 16 of this year when it accused Russia of funneling weapons, military equipment, people and money to war-torn eastern Ukraine through their common border.

Kiev also accused Russia of racial discrimination of minorities in the Black Sea republic of Crimea, which reunited with Russia after a March 2014 referendum. Ukrainian authorities claimed probes into alleged disappearances of Crimean Tatars were not conducted promptly and that Ukrainian-language education was restricted.

The ICJ ruled that Russia should allow Tatars to preserve their representative institutions, such as Mejlis, and ensure the availability of education in the Ukrainian language. But it found that Ukraine had not “put before it evidence which affords a sufficient basis to find it plausible” that Russia had financed terrorism in Ukraine.

Moscow welcomed the decision of the UN Court.

“It is important that the Court took a principled position and did not support Ukraine’s claims about alleged “aggression”, “occupation”, or the status of Crimea as not relevant to the subject of the proceedings,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in the statement on its website.

Commenting on the ruling, Russian political analyst, director of the Scientific and Research Institute of Political Sociology Vyacheslav Smirnov told Radio Sputnik that it was, in fact, a compromise and inconclusive.

“The Court’s decision was a compromise. It underlined rights for the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar language. And that was it. So, we can say here that the demands have been partially satisfied. Or we can also say that the demands have not been satisfied in principle,” he told Sputnik.

The political analyst further suggested that Kiev won’t stop blaming and demonizing Russia.

“Ukraine has to further blame and demonize Russia. Otherwise the voters and certain politically active elements won’t support its current administration – the president and the cabinet of ministers. Hence they are doomed to blaming Russia of whatever they find appropriate until they remain in power,” he said.

In a separate comment on the issue, Dr. Dmitri Labin, a professor of international law at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations noted to Radio Sputnik that the Court is yet to review the merits of the case, however the chances are miserable that it will accept [Coup Seated] Ukraine’s claims.

“The international court is not at all obliged to determine who, what and how it is done, that’s done by completely different international entities. So it is legally impossible to demand this from the International Court of Justice. Whatever evidence anyone imagined, it is not within the competence of the International Court of Justice, “the lawyer said.

Sputnik

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