Pussy Riot Judge's Attacker Arrested

The man who attacked the judge handling the Pussy Riot case with an axe has been arrested and subjected to pre-trial detention for two months. Moscow resident Andrei Borodin, 36, burst into the office of a Tagansky District Court judge wielding an axe and demanding the release of the Pussy Riot punk group members. The judge, Yelena Ivanova, resisted the attack and Borodin was detained. Both the investigator who filed the case against him and the prosecutor asked the court to place Borodin in custody. The defense is entitled to contest the ruling within three days. The court ruled last week that three Pussy Riot members would remain in custody until at least June 24 for their anti-Putin protest in Moscow's largest cathedral. Meanwhile, on Sunday the Orthodox Church organized near the cathedral a 70,000-strong public prayer lead by the Patriarch "for the protection of faith." http://www.rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20120424/262917596.html http://www.lenta.ru/photo/2012/04/22/service/