Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 01/15/2015

Subject: Inadmissibility judgment according to which the Russian courts were justified in dismissing a defamation claim brought by Stalin’s grandson against Novaya Gazeta newspaper and they did not violate the right to the respect for private life neither of the applicant nor of his grandfather.

Parties: Dzhugashvili c. Russia

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Art. 11 Freedom of information