A Moscow court began hearings in the libel suit of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and the Moscow government against liberal opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and Kommersant newspaper. Nemtsov published a book accusing Moscow authorities of large-scale corruption. In addition, Kommersant published an interview where Nemtsov, responding to a mayoral spokesman’s comment that “Luzhkov is a figure, while Nemtsov is nothing,” stated: “I think that Luzhkov is a corruptionist and a thief, while I am not!” Officials claim 5 million rubles (approx. $200,000) from Nemtsov and the same amount from Kommersant.
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1280862&NodesID=2
Update of 30 Nov. 2009:
Luzhkov won 500,000 rubles from each of the defendants.
http://lenta.ru/news/2009/11/30/million/
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