{"id":27889,"date":"2011-10-14T13:34:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T12:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27889"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:59:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:59:52","slug":"uk-russian-tycoon-sued-for-libel-over-talkshow-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27889","title":{"rendered":"UK: Russian tycoon sued for libel over talkshow fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Russia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may.uk\/tag\/Russia\" target=\"_blank\">Russian<\/a> property developer who was punched during a talkshow, is suing\u00a0for libel in England after his\u00a0<a title=\"Reuters - Russian tycoon sued for libel over talkshow fight\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/10\/13\/us-russia-britain-lebedev-idUSTRE79C5EW20111013\" target=\"_blank\">assailant<\/a>, fellow Russian tycoon\u00a0<a title=\"Reuters - Russian tycoon sued for libel over talkshow fight\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/10\/13\/us-russia-britain-lebedev-idUSTRE79C5EW20111013\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Alexander Lebedev<\/a>\u00a0said he deserved the beating. Sergei Polonsky is suing Lebedev, owner of the Independent and London Evening Standard for defamation following their <a title=\"News Blogged - Russian Oligarch Alexander Lebedev Attacks Punches Sergei Polonsky Russia Tycoon TV Debate\" href=\"http:\/\/newsblogged.com\/video-russian-oligarch-alexander-lebedev-attacks-punches-sergei-polonsky-russia-tycoon-tv-debate\" target=\"_blank\">altercation<\/a> in September. Lebedev told the <a title=\"BBC - Russia media boss Alexander Lebedev in TV punch-up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-14963426\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>\u00a0that Polonsky had insulted him for 90 minutes. Criminal proceedings for assault have begun in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian property developer who was punched during a talkshow, is suing\u00a0for libel in England after his\u00a0assailant, fellow Russian tycoon\u00a0\u00a0Alexander Lebedev\u00a0said he deserved the beating. Sergei Polonsky is suing Lebedev, owner of the Independent and London Evening Standard for defamation following their altercation in September. Lebedev told the BBC\u00a0that Polonsky had insulted him for 90 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[348,3898,165,323,7349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27889"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79154,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27889\/revisions\/79154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}