MOSCOW, February 2. /TASS/. Russian Investigative Committee chief Alexander Bastrykin said the interpretation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of events in South Ossetia in August 2008 as an international armed conflict between Russia and Georgia during which Russia controlled the actions of the South Ossetian authorities is ungrounded.
In an interview with the Russian government daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Bastrykin said: "In my view, in this way the ICC set the vector of investigation and started trying to bring the case’s circumstances in line with the dubious judicial doctrine of effective control of the territory, formulated among other biased rulings of international court bodies aimed against Russia’s interests."
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