A district court in St. Petersburg has temporarily suspended hearings in the criminal case against Vyacheslav Shvedov. He is accused of desecrating the grave of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the private military company Wagner. The reason for halting the proceedings was the defendant's desire to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. This information was confirmed by Darya Lebedeva, the press secretary for the St. Petersburg courts.