{
  "id": 16218302,
  "title": "Moscow court orders four critics to pay Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska 40 million rubles in defamation case",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/moscow-court-orders-four-critics-to-pay-russian-billionaire-oleg",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T19:23:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Meduza (English)",
    "slug": "meduza-english",
    "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/23/moscow-court-orders-four-critics-to-pay-russian-billionaire-oleg-deripaska-40-million-rubles-in-defamation-case"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Moscow’s Tagansky District Court has ruled in favor of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska in a defamation lawsuit against four critics, according to his lawyer Alexey Melnikov. The court found that the information the defendants had spread was false and defamatory, ordering them to pay a total of 40 million rubles in compensation. Deripaska had sought 1 billion rubles from Maria Pevchikh, Sergey Yezhov, Irina Alleman, and Olga Romanova. The lawsuit stemmed from a video titled \"Organized Crime, Officials, Girls: The Criminal Biography of Oleg Deripaska\" on the Navalny Live YouTube channel, which called Deripaska \"an oligarch for whom crime has always been the norm.\"",
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Kyiv Independent",
        "title": "Kremlin-seized German company Metro AG transfers 1 billion rubles to Russian military without approval",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/kremlin-seized-german-company-metro-ag-transfers-1-billion-rubles-to",
        "published": "2026-10-23T21:39:53.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}