Affiliated media: Narodnyye Novosti, Editorial

Incident date: December 25, 2020

Attack type:

• prosecution for violation of the honour, dignity and business reputation; violation of privacy following civil lawsuit

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Fontanka

Location: Russia, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg

Additional information:

The former teacher at the Herzen University and former deputy Alexander Kobrynsky filed a claim to protect his honour and dignity to Sofia Volyanova, owner of the holod.media and the publication Narodnyye Novosti. The plaintiff requests to delete the article about his intimate relations with the students and publish the retraction. The claim's total amount is 1.3 million rubles, of which 1 million Kobrinsky wants to recover from Volyanova and 300 thousand rubles from Narodnyye Novosti. On December 6, 2021, the Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg partially satisfied the claim.