The court recognized the phrases from Gozman’s article in Novaya Gazeta as discrediting the RT TV channel and Krasovsky. Gozman promised to reach the ECHR
Anton Krasovsky
The Moscow Arbitration Court has satisfied the claim of journalist Anton Krasovsky and RT TV channel against politician and human rights activist Leonid Gozman and Novaya Gazeta. Krasovsky announced this in his Telegram channel. Gozman confirmed this information to RBC and said that he would appeal the decision.
“The newspaper was ordered to delete Gozman’s letter, publish the court decision as a refutation. And Gozman himself has to pay me 300 thousand rubles of compensation, ” Krasovsky wrote. He added that he does not expect any compensation from Gozman, as well as an apology.
“We will appeal, we will file in Strasbourg, of course, we will not leave the case like this,” Gozman told RBC, noting that the decision did not surprise him, and the court ” absolutely ignored common sense.”
According to him, in response to a request to explain what caused the amount of 300 thousand rubles, the representative of the plaintiff said that this is so that Gozman “no longer spoke in this way about RT”. “In this regard, I must say that there were people in our country who, in order to tell the truth, went not only to material losses, but also to the loss of life and freedom. I wanted to at least to some extent correspond to their memory and their greatness. My honor is worth much more than 300 thousand rubles. and I, of course,will continue to do and speak freely, ” he added.
The claim was filed with the Moscow Arbitration Court in April 2021. It was submitted on behalf of the ANO “TV-News”, the founder of the RT TV channel, and the journalist of this channel Anton Krasovsky to the politician and human rights activist Leonid Gozman and “Novaya Gazeta”. The reason for the lawsuit was an article by Gozman ” Love is a threesome: we are with a comrade major and Anton Krasovsky. A statement to the Investigative Committee, published on the website of the Novaya Gazeta on March 9.
In it, Gozman claimed that his conversation with former State Duma deputy Igor Yakovenko after being invited to Krasovsky’s program “Antonyms” was listened to by the special services, and its contents were transmitted to RT and became known to Krasovsky. “So, we were tapped and the results of the wiretapping were instantly transmitted to Russia Today. Actually, we have an inactive one,of course, but also the law on the secrecy of telephone conversations, which has not been repealed by anyone, ” Gozman wrote.
Later, he said that together with Yakovenko, he appealed to the Investigative Committee with a demand to initiate a criminal case on this fact and consider Krasovsky a suspect of complicity in a crime.
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