The five-week postponement is the latest in a troubled development cycle that began almost a decade ago.
The judge in that case granted a one-week postponement to give Mr. Navalny's lawyers more time to prepare.
Despite the chaos of the preparation, which necessitated a two-week postponement, the production was a great success.
First it took advantage of a two-week postponement of the long-awaited talks to launch a bloody offensive across much of the country.
Republican leaders, aware that their intransigence over the budget has hit the party's popularity, last week proposed a six-week postponement of the deadline.
The digit that the guitarist Jimmy Page fractured, forcing a two-week postponement of Led Zeppelin's reunion concert, was his left pinky.
His election was preceded by widespread violence, especially in Freetown and the southeastern towns of Bo and Kenema, but prompt police action and a two-week postponement of the polls until August 11 defused tension.
Now he has disowned his protégé.In early February Mr Obasanjo expressed support for Muhammadu Buhari, the opposition candidate in presidential elections which are now scheduled for March 28th, after a controversial six-week postponement.
Without the two-week postponement agreed to by both sides, authorities would have had until yesterday to either indict Dr. Waksal or present some evidence against him at a hearing.
A two-week postponement of the gathering, ordered in hope of broadening participation, did not yield any breakthroughs, particularly in persuading influential Sunni Muslim groups like the Muslim Clerics Association, or Mr. Sadr, to abandon their boycott of the process.
