Trial of M. Rust in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. September 3, 1987. Monika Rust, mother of amateur pilot Matthias Rust, accused of hooliganism, illegal entry into the USSR and violation of international flight regulations, and his lawyer Vladimir Yakovlev during a conversation between sessions of the Criminal Cases Panel of the Supreme Court 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 Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow. Nikolai Malyshev/TASS