"Your homeland is not Russia but the Soviet Union. Your country, thank God, has not existed for already 18 years."Somehow this constituted defamation. Article here.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
In Russia free speech costs $33
A Moscow court recently ruled that journalist Aleksandr Podrabinek pay 1000 rubles (about $33) to a World War II veteran for a phrase he used in an article online. The phrase:
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Could be worse. I heard from my friend in Germany they were going to rebuild the Berlin Firewall...
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