Alexey Navalny has lost another legal battle over his bombshell documentary film investigating alleged corruption involving Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Once again, a Moscow district court has ordered him to remove parts of the film, following a successful defamation lawsuit by one of the figures in Navalny’s investigation.
This time, Navalny and his Anti-Corruption Foundation lost to the “Sotsgosproekt” (Social State Project) Foundation, which is run by Ilya Eliseyev, one of Medvedev’s former classmates.
Earlier this year, Navalny and his organization lost a lawsuit to billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who demanded that Navalny retract claims that Usmanov bribed Medvedev through the Sotsgosproekt charity.
Navalny has refused to obey the court orders, appealing both verdicts.