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FIELD HEARING–Holding Russia Accountable for its War Crimes against Ukraine: Lessons from Nuremberg

Nuremberg Courtroom 600 Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

Members

Representative Joe Wilson

Chairman

Commission on Security & Cooperation in Europe

Senator Thom Tillis

Commissioner

Commission on Security & Cooperation in Europe

Representative Victoria Spartz

Commissioner

Commission on Security & Cooperation in Europe

Congressman Lloyd Doggett

Commissioner

Commission on Security & Cooperation in Europe

Congressman Andy Harris

Commissioner

Commission on Security & Cooperation in Europe

Welcoming Remarks

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

President of Ukraine (video)

Marcus König

Lord Mayor of the City of Nuremberg

Professor Christoph Safferling

Director of the Nuremberg Academy

Ms. Angelika Schlunck

State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Justice of Germany

Tobias Winkler

German Member of Parliament

Dr. Georg Eisenreich

Minister of Justice of Bavaria (prerecorded video)

Panelists

Andriy Kostin

Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Professor Veronika Bílková

OSCE Moscow Mechanism Rapporteur, Head of the Department of International Law, Faculty of Law of the Charles University

Roksolana Burianenko

Ukraine Archives, Mnemonic

Roman Avramenko

Executive Director, Truth Hounds

Professor Christoph Safferling

Director of the Nuremberg Academy

Dr. Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė

Deputy Minister of Justice, Lithuania

Beth van Schaack

U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice

Session One: Russian crimes against Ukraine’s children, women, and civilians, as well as the use of new technologies in the collection of evidence

Session Two: Holding the Russian state and affiliated individuals accountable through courts and international mechanisms

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