A scandalous ban on travel abroad for the co-authors of the report “Putin. Results” to Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov was canceled by the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP). Earlier, Nemtsov’s lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said that he had received a ban order from the Moscow service department in connection with this. that his client allegedly did not comply with the court decision on the claim of entrepreneur Gennady Timchenko. Then Milov announced a similar decision regarding himself. Timchenko was offended by the fact that in the report Nemtsov and Milov wrote that before Vladimir Putin came to power, his friend was a nobody. The court demanded, in addition to compensation for moral damage, to publish a refutation in Kommersant. A refutation was published, but, as Prokhorov explained, the headline required by the court was printed in too small a font for Timchenko’s lawyers, and they did not consider it a headline. In this regard, they demanded that the bailiffs impose a ban on Nemtsov and Milov from traveling abroad for six months, which was granted.
When reports about this ban appeared, the FSSP press service initially stated that there was no such resolution (although Prokhorov reported about seals and signatures, and Milov posted a scanned document on his blog). Later the bailiffs admitted that there was a decree. Finally, on the evening of July 7, the FSSP reversed the decision. The head of the service, Artur Parfenchikov, said that he learned about the ban from the media. He stated that the measures taken by bailiff Evgeniy Cherednik are absolutely legal, but at the moment premature. Prokhorov argues that the question of whether a headline is a headline should be decided in court, so the ban is illegal and absurd.