Kashin Is Cleared in Defamation Lawsuit

From right, Kashin, Parfyonov and Chirikova at the Anti-Seliger camp. A Moscow court on Tuesday cleared Kommersant reporter Oleg Kashin in a much-watched defamation lawsuit, ruling that he was free to speculate about who might have ordered his beating last fall. Kashin wrote on his blog in March that the assault was masterminded by the Kremlin’s youth policy chief, Vasily Yakemenko. Yakemenko sued […]