Mark Galeotti: Russia is flexible when it comes to justice
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives for a meeting with the leader of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 18, 2015.
The current fad for the Russian Investigative Committee to launch criminal investigations in cases outside Russia's borders - and often outside even tenuous Russian jurisdiction - may well come back to haunt the Kremlin. After all, at a time when the question of "sovereignty" is so central to its foreign and domestic policies, does Moscow really want to encourage the "internationalization" of justice?
