The Moscow City Court on Tuesday ordered the business daily Kommersant and liberal opposition politician Boris Nemtsov to pay $16,000 each in damages to Mayor Yury Luzhkov for libelous statements, Interfax reported.
With the decision, the court upheld a lower court's ruling that Nemtsov and the newspaper libeled Luzhkov in a report by Nemtsov last year that accused the mayor of breeding corruption in the city.
Nemtsov said he would appeal the case all the way to the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg and that another 100,000 copies of his updated report would be distributed soon on the streets of Moscow, Interfax reported.
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