Forbes is obliged to apologize

The Arbitration Court recognized Elena Baturin the offended publishing house Axel Springer Russia once again lost in the courts of Elena Baturina, Inteco CJSC, which demanded to recognize the publication in the Forbes journal, discrediting her business reputation. On Thursday, the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal ordered the defendant to publish in the publication a refutation of the contested facts. The court also decided to recover 35.5 thousand rubles from the publication. The same amount should be paid by both co -authors of the article.

Elena Baturina sued the Russian Forbes in February 2007. She did not like the article “My Moscow”, which was published in December 2006. The lawsuit against the magazine was filed after the Forbes refused to indicate the sources of information. The lawsuit against the Seteko CJSC also presented to Maxim Kashulinsky to the Forbes chief editor. This lawsuit is satisfied with the decision of the Chertanovsky court. On May 15, 2007, the Moscow City Court upheld this decision in force.

Gennady Terebkov, director of the Intaci External Communications Department, on behalf of the company, expressed full satisfaction with the court decision. “The court once again confirmed the justice of Inteko's requirements to the Axel Springer Russia publishing house and the validity of our position,” Terebkov told the Gazeta correspondent.

Axel Springer Russia does not intend to give up and plans to appeal the decision of the court of appeal at the federal level. “Now we go to the federal level and apply for a cassation. I think that everything will be different there, ”said Alexander Dobrovinsky, lawyer of the AXEL Springer Russian Publishing House in an interview with Gazeta. The decision in the case of Kashulinsky will also appeal. According to the lawyer, the European Court in Strasbourg will consider the case.

By the way, if a refutation still appears, it is unlikely to please Elena Baturina. “The plaintiff demands to refute the phrase in an article that sounds like this:“ Baturina does not accept gifts from Moscow, she acts neatly, ”said Dobrovinsky.“ Forbes should give a refutation, redusing the phrase in a mirror order, that is, that is: “Baturina makes gifts from Moscow, it acts inaccurately.” Although they brought up the decision in favor It is difficult to do this. The Ninth Court of Appeal has canceled the lawsuit of the “Intaco” by the court.

Previous lawsuits by Baturina against the media were also satisfied with the courts. In 2000, the wife of the Moscow mayor collected from the ORT and Sergey Dorenko television channel 5 thousand rubles for the dissemination of information that she has an apartment in the United States. In 2004, Baturina won the case of protecting honor and dignity against the editorial office of the Vedomosti newspaper and journalist Elmar Murtazaev, and in 2005 the court satisfied the two lawsuits of Baturina against the Kommersant newspaper.

01/17/2008 / Svetlana Kazantseva, the material was published in the newspaper No. 8 dated 01/18/2008.