Moscow court orders four critics to pay Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska 40 million rubles in defamation case

Meduza23 October 2026, 19:23 UTCRussia

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court has ruled partly in Oleg Deripaska’s favor in his defamation lawsuit against Anti-Corruption Foundation investigators Maria Pevchikh and Sergey Yezhov, former Popular Politics host Irina Alleman, and human rights activist Olga Romanova, the businessman’s lawyer, Alexey Melnikov, told Interfax.

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