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Former Pussy Riot lawyers filed a lawsuit against Kommersant Publishing House and Irina Khrunova
Former lawyers for members of the punk group Pussy Riot are demanding 500 thousand rubles from the Kommersant publishing house in favor of each in a claim for the protection of honor and dignity, lawyer Nikolai Polozov told Interfax on Monday.
“The reason was an article entitled “Punk prayer reached Strasbourg,” said Polozov. According to him, the plaintiffs are demanding 500 thousand rubles in favor of each from the Kommersant publishing house and from lawyer Irina Khrunova - 50 thousand rubles in favor of each They also demand that the article be removed from the site and a refutation written.
The Kommersant article cites comments from Khrunova, who states that the plaintiffs are professionally incompetent, Polozov noted.
The editor-in-chief of the newspaper Kommersant, Mikhail Mikhailin, told Interfax that the editorial office has no information about these claims.