A court in Moscow dismissed the libel suit of Vasily Yakimenko, head of Russia’s Federal Agency for Youth Affairs ("Rosmolodezh"), against journalist Oleg Kashin and political scientist Alexander Morozov, who suggested in their blogs that Yakimenko may have been involved in last year's attempted murder of Kashin, with whom Yakimenko had a conflict. Kashin, in particular, stated that he “has no doubt in the Yakimenko version” of the assault (Kashin was brutally beaten by unidentified persons with an iron rod). Yakimenko demanded some $50,000 in damages, but the judge concluded that “the fact of the dissemination of libellous information has not been established in the court hearings.”
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1664213
http://www.lifenews.ru/news/42779 (surveillance video)
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