Court ordered Medvedchuk to pay almost 140,000 hrvivnyas to “Vivat” publishing house
The Kyiv Court of Appeals has ordered to levy about 140 thousand hryvnias (about $5000) from the MP Viktor Medvedchuk in reimbursement to “Vivat” publishing house in the case of banning the distribution of Vakhtang Kipiani's book "The Case of Vasyl Stus". The journalist's lawyer Vyacheslav Yakubenko said it on his Facebook page, as Ukrinform reported.
"The Court of Appeal granted the application of the Vivat publishing house and with an additional ruling collected from Medvedchuk 139.5 thousand hryvnias spent by the publishing house on legal assistance in the appellate instance," the lawyer wrote.
Yakubenko believes that Medvedchuk will file a cassation appeal against the court's decision.
As IMI reported, on March 19, the Kyiv Court of Appeal overturned the decision of the Darnytsia District Court of Kyiv to ban the publication and distribution of the book "The Case of Vasyl Stus" by journalist Vakhtang Kipiani.
On October 19, 2020, the Kyiv Court of Appeals overturned the decision of the Darnytsia District Court of Kyiv to ban the distribution of the book by journalist Vakhtang Kipiani, “The Case of Vasyl Stus”.
In addition, the court barred Kipiani and Vivat from using and disseminating in the media the information contained in the two sections, which "makes it possible to identify Viktor Medvedchuk as a character, an actor without his consent."
On November 26, 2020, the Kyiv Court of Appeal registered an appeal against the decision of the Darnytsia District Court of Kyiv regarding Vakhtang Kipiani's book “The Case of Vasyl Stus”. The appeal was filed by “ Vivat” publishing house.
As IMI reported, on October 19, the Darnytsya District Court ordered Vakhtang Kipiani, author of the book “The Case of Vasyl Stus”, and Vivat Publishing House to take down any saying about Viktor Medvedchuk, MP from the Opposition Platform for Life, and banned the distribution of printed copies until redressment of violations of Medvedchuk's non-property rights.
The court held “to compel Kipiani and Vivat publishing house to take down any saying about the person of Medvedchuk out of the book sections “ Criminal case №5. The Book of Life and Death of Vasyl Stus ”and “Did Medvedchuk Killed the Poet Vasyl Stus, Didn’t He?” The court prohibits Mr Kipiani and Vivat publishing house from distributing the printed copies of the book "The Case of Vasyl Stus" and from further printing until redressment of violation of the personal non-property right Medvedchuk," the judge announced.
Besides that, the court banned Kipiani and Vivat from using and disseminating any information from two above-mentioned sections and which "makes it possible to identify Viktor Medvedchuk as a person, actor without his consent"in mass media.
The court has partly upheld Medvedchuk's lawsuit against Kipiani and Vivat publishing.
The decision will take legal effect after the deadline for filing an appeal. Within 30 days, the decision can be appealed to the Kyiv Court of Appeal.
On October 19, the judge announced the operative part of the decision. The full text will be announced within 10 days.
Vakhtang Kipiani said he would appeal against the decision of the Darnytsia District Court of Kyiv to ban the distribution of his book “The Case of Vasyl Stus”.
On October 19, Vivat publishing house decided to appeal against that decision of the Darnytsia District Court of Kyiv.
Vakhtang Kipiani's book "The Case of Vasyl Stus" was published in May 2019.
As IMI reported, in the summer of 2019, Viktor Medvedchuk, an MP from the “Opposition Platform - For Life”, filed a lawsuit against journalist and historian Vakhtang Kipiani in the Darnytsia District Court of Kyiv, demanding to ban the distribution of his book “The Case of Vasyl Stus”.
"The Case of Vasyl Stus" was published in 2019. The book contains several documents from the archives of the former KGB of the USSR about the resonant case of the poet, from eyewitness testimonies, letters from the writer from prison, memoirs of his family and friends.
Medvedchuk was Stus's lawyer when he was arrested for the second time in 1980.
On October 2, 2019, the Darnytskyi District Court of Kyiv began consideration of the case on Medvedchuk's claim.
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