This is one of the most remarkable expert reports I have ever seen in my life.
It proves that the phrase “A. Navalny” refers to a person named A. Navalny.
Don’t laugh, this is very important—it gives us grounds to launch the fifth wave of lawsuits against Prosecutor General Chaika.
Let me remind you that we somewhat broke the Russian judicial system by suing Chaika after he called our investigation “a commission from foreign intelligence services,” even publishing an open letter in Kommersant to that effect.
Since every fact in our investigation is documented, while the prosecutor general can bring nothing to court in support of his claims except himself, the authorities decided that such a trial must not be allowed under any circumstances.
First, they rejected us on the grounds that the prosecutor general is not a person, but a prosecutor.
Then they came up with formal pretexts for refusing to accept the claim.
And when we went to six different Moscow courts at once, naming a media outlet as a nominal co-defendant on technical grounds, the Moscow court system made a coordinated decision: every court, as if copied from the same template, wrote back to us, “A. Navalny’s interests have not been affected, therefore we will not accept claims filed by him.”
Now, as I said, this is the fifth wave of our filings, and we have prepared for it—we commissioned a full expert report proving that when the prosecutor general speaks about “A. Navalny,” he is referring to A. Navalny.
This time we are going to the Basmanny District Court, which has not previously handled our claims; *Novaya Gazeta*, which falls under its jurisdiction, will help us with this and will be named as a co-defendant.
Let’s see what they come up with this time.
At the same time, we are filing a case with the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) against Russia for violating our right to judicial protection. We have received the Moscow City Court’s decisions on our previous interlocutory appeals, so we are entitled to do so.
We are also preparing a complaint to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and will ask it to review for constitutionality the provisions of the Civil Procedure Code (Article 134) which, as interpreted by the courts, violate our right to judicial protection of rights and freedoms guaranteed by Article 46 of the Russian Constitution.