At the beginning of today’s hearing in Nadia Savchenko’s case in the Russian Donetsk court, presiding judge Leonid Stepanenko warned those present about their behavior.
“Everybody must know how to behave themselves,” the judge said, according to the independent Novaya Gazeta. People in the court room are not allowed to nod, he added. Nodding, apparently, may “distract the court from justice.”
President Petro Poroshenko met with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in New York on September 29. The two discussed implementation of the Minsk agreement, according to the presidential press office.
“The parties agreed that Russia must fully implement the Minsk agreements,” reads the statement.
Biden emphasized that Ukraine’s security issue is in no way related to the situation around the conflict in Syria.