{"id":24326,"date":"2011-06-27T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T10:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=24326"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:51:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:51:29","slug":"russia-oleg-kashin-defeats-libel-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=24326","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Oleg Kashin defeats libel claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship: Russia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russian<\/a> journalist, <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Russia - Reporter Beaten\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2010\/11\/russia-reporter-beaten\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oleg Kashin<\/a>, has won the right to speculate about the identity of two men who beat him with iron rods. Kashin spent five days in a coma after he was attacked outside his apartmenton 6 November last year. The Kremlin\u2019s youth policy chief, Vasily Yakemanko, filed a libel suit against Kashin, liberal newspaper <a title=\"Novye Izvestia: Home page\" href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.co.uk\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=ru&amp;u=http:\/\/www.newizv.ru\/&amp;ei=hFYITqj8K8mgOrqb8dQN&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=translate&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCkQ7gEwAA&amp;prev=\/search%3Fq%3DNovye%2BIzvestia%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26pwst%3D1%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D578%26prmd%3Divns\" target=\"_blank\">Novye Izvestia <\/a>and political analyst, Alexander Morozov, for reporting speculation that he might be behind the incident. A Moscow court ruled in favour of Kashin after it was found that Yakemenko had failed to prove that the accusations were factual statements.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian journalist, Oleg Kashin, has won the right to speculate about the identity of two men who beat him with iron rods. Kashin spent five days in a coma after he was attacked outside his apartmenton 6 November last year. The Kremlin\u2019s youth policy chief, Vasily Yakemanko, filed a libel suit against Kashin, liberal newspaper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585,581],"tags":[574,2798,727,7349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24326"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24354,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24326\/revisions\/24354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}