Nobody has taken the time or the trouble to challenge Russia's seat on the Security Council. Russia simply assumed the seat when the USSR dissolved and no one said "No, you can't do that". But Russia's possession of the seat remains unofficial and Russia can be removed at any time its credentials are challenged. Precedent for this is when Taiwan, then representing China for thirty years, was replaced by Beijing. It happened once, it could happen again. It merely takes the fortitude to get the job done.

The Credentials Committee of the UN has never officially recognized Russia as inheriting the Security Council seat of the USSR. It could be just as easily and fairly awarded to any former republic of the USSR - for example, Ukraine!

“The Kulaks are routed as a class but not finished off.”

• Stalin, January, 1933, addressing the plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

There's your intent and there is the portion of your ethnic group, as the kulaks were Ukrainian.

>“We should not forget this war and its consequences until there is a change in the Russian regime. It is a criminal regime and it should take full responsibility for the war,” [Lithuanian president Gitanas Nausėda] said.

>The West must also seek to ensure that the Kremlin runs out of resources to continue its war in Ukraine, according to Nausėda.

>“Countries that have lived in Russia’s neighbourhood for centuries know better than anyone else that the aggressor cannot be stopped by concessions,” he said at a joint news conference with his Latvian, Polish, and Romanian counterparts in Kaunas.

>“We need to continue with sanctions – there must be no resources left for the Kremlin to continue this war,” the president added.

>Nausėda also called on Western countries to step up their support for Ukraine.

>“We must scale up our support to Ukraine: air defence systems, weapons, military equipment, winter uniforms – anything that Ukrainians ask for,” he said. “We need to find a way to deliver it because this is how they can win against the aggressor, and this is how we all can win.”

90 years is quick?

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

>German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Friday welcomed efforts in the country's parliament to declare the Holodomor, the death by starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33, a genocide.

>"She welcomes very much that there is a lot of support in the German parliament for this," a spokesperson for Baerbock told reporters.

>The Holodomor was a result of Soviet leader Josef Stalin's efforts to collectivise agriculture and root out Ukraine's fledgling nationalist movement.

>Last week the US' Westinghouse Electric beat out KHNP on a deal for a first nuclear plant, but the deal announced Monday is for a second plant out of a projected six.