Court satisfied the claim of studio “1+1” against the newspaper “Stolichnye novosti”

In January 2003 the Pecherskiy district court of Kyiv satisfied the claim of studio “1+1” against the newspaper “Stolichnye novosti”. The court acknowledged the information published in the newspaper to be inauthentic and obliged the defendants to pay to the TV studio the compensation of the moral damage equal to 10 million hryvnas. Yet, the studio “1+1” decreased the demanded sum to 1 hryvna hoping at the same time that the false information published in the newspaper would be publicly refuted.

 (Our informant)