"It feels like I'm suing the astronauts, not the teachers."
The court refused to consider a class action lawsuit filed by public sector employees against an activist. To Alexander Kasyanovwho lives in the city of Volgograd Kotovo and runs his own Telegram channel with 5 subscribers.
The reason for the trial was comment under the photo where the district head is Sergey Chumakov stands surrounded by school and kindergarten directors: someone wrote about a "snake's nest" and a "chief jackal" in the middle.
Offended by this, the heads of six schools, two kindergartens, and a community center filed a lawsuit for 300 rubles. They claimed that Kasyanov was the author of the defamatory comment, but they were unable to prove this in court. failed.
«They swore they would provide some kind of police and prosecutorial investigation results that would supposedly incriminate me. However, in the end, nothing came from them, other than another request to postpone the hearing.- clarified blogger. — They couldn't come to court because of Cosmonautics Day. It felt like I was suing cosmonauts, not teachers."
As a result, the court decided that Cosmonautics Day was not a valid reason to postpone the hearing and simply rejected class action lawsuit by public sector employees.