This decision is announced today Tolochin District Court Judge Natalia Borisovets sit in a lawsuit chairman of the district organization "Belarusian Society of Hunters and Fishermen" Yuri Lychkovskaya on protection of honor and dignity.

As reported by "Dialogue" earlier Lychkovskaya offended that the article "From the forest to captivity: in a quiet Bolotov run deep" , published in "Vitebsk Courier" by publishing allegedly called him a poacher.

Istsets would recover in damages from gezety and author Nicholas Petrushenko 5 million rubles in solidarity order. But the judge dismissed the suit against the publication of "Vitebsk Courier."

Meanwhile, human rights activists believe that the sentence handed down today unjustified and illegal from the legal point of view.

Thus, as noted by the Vitebsk defender Paul Levinov, the case file was not even a newspaper article he sutured. In addition, the text has not been signed as Petrushenko author and fed edition under the general heading "Research Petrushenko Nicholas."

"So this publication is an editorial and a defendant was acting as representatives of" Vitebsk Courier ", - says Levin. But the editors of the newspaper in the process of pecking, because even not received subpoenas.

Levinov believes istsets has provided no evidence that it caused emotional distress. In the lawsuit, he expressed an opinion that the publication had insulted him morally.

Judges Borisovets times during the challenging process. But every time she rejects them.

Petrushenko going to appeal the decision of the court in Tolochin Vitebsk regional court.