A Russian court has awarded symbolic damages to an online Russian writer who claimed her employer’s main goal was churning out Internet propaganda favorable to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin.
In a ruling Monday, the court in St. Petersburg set the damages at one ruble – the penalty sought by plaintiff Lyudmila Savchuk. The writer went public earlier this year with claims that her company, Internet Research, flooded the Internet with pro-Putin and pro-Kremlin propaganda that routinely appeared on Russian and Western news websites.
Savchuk filed her lawsuit in May, and later described her work experiences to Western news agencies …read more
Source: Voice of America
