Navalny must pay businessman Udodov $5,000 for defamation - courtThe Moscow City Court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling ordering Alexey Navalny to pay 350,000 rubles (about $5,000) to businessman Alexander Udodov in a defamation dispute.11:35 11.03.2021
Navalny ordered to pay $7,000 to businessman Prigozhin in defamation disputeMoscow’s Lyublinsky District Court ordered Alexey Navalny to pay businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin 500,000 rubles (about $7,000), therefore granting the entrepreneur’s defamation claim filed against the blogger.16:20 05.03.2021
Russian MPs propose criminal sanctions for humiliation of Great Patriotic War veteransRussian lawmakers have drafted a bill on criminal punishment for insulting veterans of the Great Patriotic War.17:13 24.02.2021
Navalny fined $11,500 for defaming Great Patriotic War veteranThe Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow on Saturday sentenced Alexey Navalny to a 850,000 ruble fine ($11,500) for his statements about veteran of the Great Patriotic War Ignat Artemenko.19:39 20.02.2021
Bill on pretrial blocking of online defamation reaches State DumaA bill envisaging introduction of a procedure for pretrial blocking of information resources disseminating false information, which discredits honor and dignity of a person, has been submitted to the State Duma.12:06 17.02.2021
Navalny loses appeal against $45K ruling in favor of Crimea’s meat plantThe Moscow District Commercial Court has dismissed a cassation appeal filed by Alexey Navalny against a ruling on the recovery of 3.3 million rubles (about $45,000 at the current exchange rate) of legal expenses from him in a defamation dispute with the Crimean meat processing plant Druzhba Narodov.16:35 16.02.2021
Prosecutor seeks to fine Navalny $13K for insulting statements about war veteranProsecution on Tuesday demanded to fine Alexey Navalny 950,000 rubles ($13,000) for his insulting statements about veteran of the Great Patriotic War Ignat Artemenko.11:17 16.02.2021
Hearing of businessman Prigozhin’s defamation suit against Navalny to be held in MarchMoscow’s Lyublinsky District Court will hear a 10 million-ruble (over $130,000) defamation lawsuit lodged by businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin against Alexey Navalny on March 10.18:33 28.01.2021
Dutch journalist urges Russia’s Investigative Committee open case against The Insider Chief EditorDutch journalist Max van der Werff petitioned Russia’s Investigative Committee to open a criminal case over defamation against The Insider Editor in Chief Roman Dobrokhotov, who, as the journalist alleges, said that he had worked for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU).17:53 25.01.2021
Polish journalist files slander lawsuit against Echo of Moscow Radio and KhodorkovskyPolish journalist Maciej Wiśniowski has turned to the Moscow Presnensky District Court to seek a 2 million rubles ($27,000) compensation for moral harm from Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) Radio and ex-Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who, he alleges, disseminated false information injurious to his honor and dignity.15:28 25.01.2021
Moscow court to resume war veteran defamation proceedings against NavalnyA defamation case against Alexey Navalny over his statements about veteran of the Great Patriotic War Ignat Artemenko will be resumed on January 20.11:37 14.01.2021
Businessman's defamation suit against Navalny and his associate to be heard on January 19Moscow’s Cheremushkinsky District Court will hear a 10 million-ruble (over $130,000) defamation claim filed by businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin against figures in opposition Alexey Navalny and Vladimir Milov on January 19.14:26 11.01.2021
Putin enacts bill on prison terms for online defamation into lawRussia’s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a bill introducing prison sentence as punishment for online defamation into law.14:19 30.12.2020
Russian businessman Prigozhin files one more defamation claim against NavalnyBusinessman Yevgeny Prigozhin has filed a 10 million-ruble defamation claim (over $130,000) against figures in opposition Alexey Navalny and Vladimir Milov.11:13 23.12.2020
Navalny ordered to pay businessman Udodov $5,000 as part of defamation disputeMoscow’s Lyublinsky District Court on Friday ordered recovery of 350,000 rubles (about $5,000) from Alexey Navalny in favor of Alexander Udodov for defamation.12:38 18.12.2020
People behind online defamation must be punished but not jailed - human rights body’s headChairman of Russia’s Presidential Council for Human Rights Valery Fadeyev believes that authors of defaming publications on the Internet must be punished with a fine but not with imprisonment.16:28 15.12.2020
Bill on prison terms for online defamation submitted to State DumaA bill introducing prison sentence as punishment for online defamation has reached the State Duma.10:49 15.12.2020
Navalny’s defamation claim against President’s spokesman put on holdThe Presnensky District Court of Moscow on Monday put on hold a defamation lawsuit lodged by Alexey Navalny against the President’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov.18:35 23.11.2020
Businessman Kerimov’s defamation suit against media grantedMoscow’s Basmanny District Court on Friday granted a defamation claim of businessman Suleyman Kerimov against Forbes magazine, newspapers Vedomosti and Sobesednik and Facebook used Narine Davydova.13:59 20.11.2020
Russian businessman Prigozhin accuses one more opposition figure of defamationBusinessman Yevgeny Prigozhin has lodged a 5 million-ruble defamation lawsuit (about $65,000) against Leonid Volkov, an associate of opposition blogger Alexey Navalny.13:27 20.10.2020