Yuri Budanov was already free. But the Minister of Defense prevented this. On Monday, at a court hearing in Rostov, information was announced that Sergei Nazarov, the state prosecutor at the Budanov trial, had been transferred to the reserve “for health reasons” by order of the head of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Ivanov. He was replaced by the assistant to the Chief Military Prosecutor of Russia, Vladimir Milovanov.

On July 1, the international treaty on the International Criminal Court came into force. The US is considering the prospect of invading The Hague. Russia keeps pace with all progressive humanity. And absolutely synchronously. On July 1, two major events took place in the field of jurisprudence both here and “with them.” The new Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation began to work, which replaced the absolutely atavistic code of laws introduced back in the RSFSR.