Russia - In victory for agit-prop over news, French weekly convicted of libelling pro-Kremlin youth movement

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In a 21 April ruling, Moscow's Savyolovsky district court ordered the French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) to pay 250,000 rubles (6,000 euros) in damages to the pro-Putin youth movement Nashi for a September 2009 article about Nashi's activities. Nashi has also sued the French daily Le Monde, the British daily The Independent and other media. The youth movement's strategy of bringing lots of defamation suits against both Russian and international media is surprising and raises many (...)

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