Inter-State Unification of International Crimes

Introduction. The article is devoted to the study of the problem of interstate unification of international crimes in various regions of the world (Africa, Latin America, CIS countries). It attempts to trace the extent to which national traditions and the specifics of criminal legislation contribute to (or hinder) the legally correct implementation of the provisions of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in domestic law. The purpose of the article is to clarify those legislative practices that are considered the most successful in the designated direction and can be taken into account in the process of state building in the post-Soviet space. Methods. The basis of the study is the dialectical method of cognition, which allows studying the subject of research in relation to other legal phenomena, as well as general scientific and special legal methods, mainly comparative legal. Results. The article states that the convergence of national legislations with the requirements and standards of international criminal law, on the one hand, enriches the legislation itself, contributing to its saturation with high-quality and long-tested provisions, far from considerations of political expediency, and on the other hand, serves the development of international criminal law regulation itself, since representatives of the states parties to the Rome Statute take part in the functioning of the working bodies of the International Criminal Court, the election of its judges and other forms of international cooperation. In addition, it is concluded that the consequence of the implementation of the norms of international criminal law is not so much the unification of national legislations, since the differences between them even within a single region remain striking, as the unification of the results of legal regulation of the relevant crimes in the direction of strengthening the fight against them. Discussion and Conclusion. At present, the International Criminal Court continues to take an unfriendly position towards the Russian Federation. This has been expressed, among other things, in its issuance of arrest warrants for Russian citizens, despite the fact that our country ceased all cooperation with it back in 2016. However, it also continues to behave inconsistently towards other states, the consequence of which is the expected withdrawal of Hungary from the Rome Statute.