29.02.2008 17:06: Singer Viktor Belan no longer has the right to perform under the stage name "Dima Bilan" Pavel Astakhov's law firm issued a statement saying that the Moscow Arbitration Court had refused to satisfy Belan's lawsuit against the company "StarPro." The singer had tried to challenge the agreement under which producer Yuri Aizenshpis transferred his rights to the "Dima Bilan" project to "StarPro." Viktor Belan argued that he held all rights to the stage name "Dima Bilan," since it had been придумed long before he met Aizenshpis. Arthur Gasparyan, music editor at the newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets" (a Russian daily), called the court's decision "complete absurdity." According to him, "this story, which has dragged on since the death of his previous producer Yuri Aizenshpis, has gone beyond the bounds of common sense and taken on a comic undertone." In the journalist's view, "there is Dima Bilan, whom everyone is used to, and the wording that requires him to change his stage image makes no sense." Gasparyan also added that "those who are trying to take the artist's stage name away from him are pursuing their own selfish interests." Gasparyan added that the artist's managers were not upset after learning what decision the court had made. http://www.echo.msk.ru/news/498323-echo.html