The publication explains that Brazil as a member of the International Criminal Court has an international obligation to detain any person wanted by the court who stepped into the territory of Brazil.
The Kremlin officials put pressure on the President of Brazil, demanding that he guarantees that Putin would not be detained by order of the Mus during the July meeting. However, President Luis Inasiu Lula da Silva hesitated, and then ultimately refused to provide immunity, Peter Dikinson from the Atlantic Council, one of the leading international analytical centers of Washington, said.
Although Putin is trying to create the image of the omnipotent ruler, heading the expanding empire, his movements on the world arena become more and more constrained, the newspaper writes. Currently, Putin’s trips to the Mus Mus Musa State are applied to 125 countries (from 195 in the world): 19 in the Asia-Pacific region, 28 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 33 in Africa and 45 in Europe.
According to Dikinson, the rage of the Kremlin on this occasion appeared two years ago, on the eve of the next Brix summit, which took place in South Africa. Then Putin's close people threatened President South Africa Siril Ramafos that any attempt to detain Putin during the meeting would be regarded as an act of war. Ultimately, after publicly, Putin decided not to try to get to the summit.
Now the Kremlin officials probably softened Putin's demands to join the Brazilian Summit Brix, Dikinson said. According to him, they realized that threats, as a rule, lead to negative publicity and force Russia to look weak.
In a sense, Putin is already in prison, writes Forbes. He has to be very careful in his visits not only to countries that are members of the Mus. Any long trips can be at risk of unplanned stops. An emergency that will force the Putin aircraft to land in Brussels or London, Rome or Paris, Stockholm, Tokyo or Sydney, can lead to the fact that he will be sent to the join flight to the Hague, the publication says.
