What do you do if you are a newspaper forced to print an article that you don’t agree with?
The popular business newspaper Kommersant, noted for irreverence and critical coverage of the Kremlin, on Monday published a court-ordered refutation of an article about giant Alfa Bank, but printed it upside-down and left most of the rest of its pages blank in protest.
"We were obliged by a court to publish a refutation, but we wanted to say that what we published wasn’t the truth," Andrei Vasilyev, general director of the Kommersant publishing house said on Ekho Moskvy radio.
I like their style. Alfa Bank, to their credit, have donated the monetary damages they received to a childrens charity.
If you want to know more about the press in Russia, check out this profile from the BBC. Did you know, for example, that Komsomolskaya Pravda is now 1/4 owned by a firm from Norway?
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