The article discusses the problems of signing and ratifying the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the historical aspect of its activities, the differences between the ICC and the International Court of Justice, jurisdictional and procedural aspects of the activities of the International Criminal Court. The author is a researcher at the Department of Criminal Legislation and Judicial System of the Institute of Law and Law, Candidate of Legal Sciences. Bibliographic link to this article: E.N. Tricose. The beginning of the activities of the International Criminal Court: status and prospects // Journal of Russian Law. – 2005. – N 3. The cover design used the cover design of books on the game Divide&Conquer. This book is a participant in the “Corrected@Vleno” project. If you would like to report errors, typos, or other shortcomings in this book, you can do so here.