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I came over to Current Time's camera. Sorry.
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Please, definitely not to
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Russia. Alexei, tell us how the proceedings are going.
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The proceedings are unfolding in a fairly traditional
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way. We file motions, entirely well-grounded motions.
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We ask for witnesses to be called, we ask for the basic exercise
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of our rights
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provided for by the Civil Code,
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and we are denied the calling of all
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witnesses. They say they have absolutely nothing
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to do with the Sotsgosproekt Foundation.
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The founder of the Sotsgosproekt Foundation has nothing to do with it,
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and its director has nothing
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to do with it either, and no one has anything to do with anything.
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We ask to submit and enter into the record
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documents from Rosreestr (Russia's state real estate registry),
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from a government agency, and again
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we are refused. Right now in the hearing there will be
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a rather interesting moment, because I
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think it will be of particular interest to you. It
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concerns censorship. In his lawsuit, Alisher
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Usmanov demands that I retract my words
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that he exercises censorship at the newspaper
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Kommersant, and we are now asking to submit
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Usmanov's own statement saying that he
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fired Maxim Kovalsky and
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another Kommersant employee for their
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articles. And this is really very
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interesting: will the court admit
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evidence that directly
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shows that Usmanov engages in
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censorship or not? Well, we'll see. But judging
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by the way the proceedings are going, unfortunately my
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guess is that it will go the way
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all similar cases have gone in
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the Lyublinsky District Court. You remember very well,
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for example, how
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United Russia member Neverov successfully
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proved to me here, in quotation marks, that the grand
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estate on the Istra River was bought by his mother-in-law, not
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by him. So, well, we'll see how it
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turns out.
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Thank you. Alexei, how
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how do you assess the likelihood
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that they will still call...
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Well, once again, you can see your colleagues
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are laughing. They refuse to admit even
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documents from Rosreestr. These are not just
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some random documents.
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I mean, literally not a single one of our
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motions has been granted,
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so I think the likelihood of that is
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small. But nevertheless, we
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will insist. Thank you, thank you.