A court in Moscow awarded 200,000 rubles ($7,000) to businessman Gennady Timchenko, currently a Finnish citizen residing in Switzerland, in a libel suit against Russian opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov. Timchenko was unhappy with several statements from the oppositionists’ report entitled “Putin. The Results. 2010,” which alleges that Timchenko’s business achievements are due to his friendship with Vladimir Putin. In particular, the report stated, “Old friends of Putin who had been nobodies before he came to power - Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk, the Rotenberg brothers - became dollar billionaires.” The report also asserted, “There are reasons to believe that all those Timchenkos are merely nominal owners of the large assets, the beneficiary of which is Putin himself.” The court also directed the oppositionists to retract the statements.
http://lenta.ru/news/2011/02/02/etowin/
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