Russia to evacuate injured top judge from Ghana

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The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said Tuesday it would fly back the head of Russian Supreme Court, who was injured in a traffic accident in Ghana.

"The decision is made. We are ready to send a plane equipped with a medical module to deliver Vyacheslav Lebedev to Russia," the Interfax news agency quoted ministry spokesman Oleg Voronov as saying.

Lebedev participated in a professional conference in that Western African country. His car collided with a truck at about 19:00 Moscow time (1300 GMT) on Monday. He was admitted to the intensive care unit of a military hospital in Ghana's capital of Accra.

The judge has been in stable non-life-threatening condition, the Supreme Court's spokesman Pavel Odintsov told reporters.

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