I really enjoyed today’s court hearing with VGTRK (Russia’s state broadcaster) and Kiselyov over the film about “Agent Freedom”. The level of Kafkaesque absurdity has not dropped. Everything met the highest standards.
These guys broadcast a film nationwide claiming that I’m a spy for every intelligence service out there and that I get millions for destroying Russia, and then they came to court and said: this isn’t about Navalny at all.
And in the parts where they can’t wriggle out of it by saying “it’s not about Navalny,” they just claim it does not damage my honor and reputation.
The exchanges were literally like this:
*- You claim that I received $300,000 from Browder for flooding Russian companies with lawsuits — where is the evidence? We will only prove that this information is not defamatory toward you. And how could it possibly defame you, when employment relationships are legal in Russia?*.
Neither VGTRK nor Kiselyov provided a single document, apart from this very response filing. Predictably, the court refused to request either the “documents” or the “correspondence.” Witness Kovalyov was not called either.
Here is a very clear video from Slon:
The lady who, incidentally, represented Kiselyov and VGTRK had previously represented Putin in a similar lawsuit. She won that one too, imagine that.
Now we await Dmitry Kiselyov’s segment about how he triumphantly proved in court every claim made in his film.
People