MOSCOW, February 9 - RAPSI. Kommersant Director General Demyan Kudryavtsev demanded prosecution for press secretary of the Nashi movement Kristina Potupchik, and other persons for preparing DDoS-attacks on Kommersant's website in 2008.

According to Kudryavtsev, the content of Potupchik's email, which was published by the hackers in the Internet clearly indicates that she was involved in preparing hacker attacks on the newspapers' website.

"While being targeted against the Kommersant newspaper, the DDoS-attacks inflicted damage to providers and other clients; the Moscow network was significantly embarrassed the criminal actions... Now we know who ordered the illegal actions and, although, ignorance of the law is no excuse, it was clearly stated in the correspondence of the Nashi movement that they understood their actions were illegal. They were sure that they would go unpunished," Kudryavtsev wrote in his Livejournal blog in the early hours of Thursday.

"Kommersant will require from the Interior Ministry initiating the case against Kristina Potupchik and other persons involved in the case... Now that there is no need to look for the guilty, now it is important to make sure that they do not go unpunished," the blog reads.

Kudryavtsev intends to seek the punishment of the law breakers both in Russia and abroad.

RIA Novosti has yet to obtain comments from the Interior Ministry and Potupchik.

In March 2008, the Kommersant newspaper's website was under hacker attacks for two days. Kudryavtsev said then that he would like to see those who organized the attack in prison, having considered the event as an "act of computer terrorism."

Kommersant legal department submitted the application to Moscow Prosecutor's Office.