mo4ch:>Court turns down National Guard chief’s defamation suit against Kremlin critic Navalny | Mo4ch News

Their much-hyped duel didn’t happen last year and now it turns out that differences between Russia’s National Guard’s boss, Viktor Zolotov, and anti-corruption blogger, Aleksey Navalny, won’t be settled in court either.A defamation claim filed by General Zolotov in December didn’t comply with the relevant articles of the Civil Procedure Code. He was given until January 9 to get it in order, but failed to do so, a Moscow court said, explaining the reasons why the lawsuit has been returned to the claimant.The rift between Zolotov and the Kremlin critic began in September after a report by Navalny’s NGO, the Foundation for Countering Corruption, alleged that tenders for food purchases by the National Guard were rigged in favor of a single supplier.In his civil action, the National Guard commander demanded that the court declare those claims invalid and that they had tarnished his business reputation. Zolotov demanded 1 million rubles ($15,000) in damages from the opposition blogger, prom…