The commander of Russia's forces in Chechnya, General Vladimir Shamanov, has said publicly that he and his top colleagues would resign rather than obeyanorder to stop the war.
The charges, which the mayor denies, stem from the city government's failure in 2001 to obey a court order to halt construction of an access road to a private hospital.
Markingson was acutely psychotic when he was placed under an involuntary commitment order that legally compelled him to obey the treatment recommendations of his psychiatrist, Dr. Stephen Olson.