Trial of M. Rust in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. August 3, 1988. Citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany, amateur pilot Matthias Rust, sentenced by the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court of the USSR on September 4, 1987 to four years' imprisonment for hooliganism, illegal entry into the USSR and violation of international flight regulations, (center) and a TASS correspondent (left) during the first interview after M. Rust's release from prison by order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. On May 28, 1987, Matthias Rust illegally crossed the border of the USSR in a Cessna 172 Skyhawk and landed on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow. Eduard Pesov/TASS