The Federal Court of Arbitration for the Moscow District has confirmed the lawfulness of the warning of the Federal Service for Supervision over the Observation of Legislation in Mass Communications and Protection of Cultural Heritage with regard to Kommersant newspaper over the publication of an interview with ex-leader of Chechen separatists Rights defenders stripped of fundsAslan Maskhadov, says RIA Novosti. The court thus rejected the appeal of the Kommersant Publishing House.
The article in question was published on 8 February this year. In the opinion of experts from the Federal Service, the interview contained information that substantiated and justified extremist activities. In this light, the agencies issued a warning to the newspaper. However, Kommersant believed there was no accurate definition what exact information could be a justification of extremist activities.
The newspaper's management applied to court, but their arguments were recognised unconvincing and the capital's court of arbitration threw out their lawsuit. http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/855760.html
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