Medinsky lost a lawsuit about the protection of honor to the Reginum agency

The Presnensky court of Moscow rejected the lawsuit to protect the honor and dignity of the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky to the Reginum information agency. It is reported by Interfax .

Hearing on the merits should have begun three weeks ago, but they were moved. As reported in the Presnensky court, the meeting was postponed, since new documents and another defendant appeared in the process. Who exactly was not specified then.

The controversial material was published after the Price of Victory program on Echo of Moscow, which discussed the events of the Second World War. On January 31, Medinsky on the air of the radio station called a luxury published by Granin, the data that in the blockade Leningrad for the party leadership of the city Pekili Pikoli - Roma women.

In the lawsuit, the Minister of Culture asked the court to refute the publication of the Agency as inappropriate to reality and defaming his honor and dignity. In his opinion, Reignum interpreted his words as a criticism of the writer. Later, Medinsky said that he was not going to apologize to Granin, since his quote was pulled out of context.