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Dog business
The tragicomedy ((http://www.ej.ru/vision/entry/3686/ trial of pensioner Lidiya Popova), accused of beating two police officers with aluminum spoons, is nearing its end. The judge of the Ostankino District Court, Kostyuchenko, faces a difficult task: to protect the “honor of the uniform” of North-East Administrative District Prefect Irina Raber, with whose connivance the Moscow mayor’s decree on the ban on the killing of stray animals in the capital was systematically violated, or to defend the law. Lawyers claim that the case was fabricated and that the notorious “bag of food” did not even exist.