MOSCOW, October 6 (RIA Novosti) - Chechen...
he could not comment on the suit as he had not studied the charges."I have not seen the suit and have nothing to say," he said. "I would like to know exactly in what way we defamed this innocent man."
Novaya Gazeta, where the late Anna Politkovskaya known for her reports on atrocities against civilians in Chechnya worked, lost a libel case filed by Kadyrov in April 2009.
On Tuesday, Kadyrov was awarded 70,000 rubles ($2,300) in libel damages from the Memorial human rights group and its head, Oleg Orlov, who had accused Kadyrov of involvement in the July murder of one of its activists.
Kadyrov had sought 10 million rubles ($320,000) in damages over Orlov"s comments, published on the Memorial web site, about the murder of Natalya Estimirova on July 14.
Oleg Orlov later said he had referred to Kadyrov"s responsibility as president for the failure to end killings of rights activists and civilians in Chechnya, but refused to publish a denial of
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