The court dismissed informant Vitaly Borodin's lawsuit against Alla Pugacheva for 5 million rubles.
Presnensky District Court Moscow completely rejected the claim of the head of the Federal Project on Security and the Fight against Corruption, it was reported NotMoscow members of the singer's defense team. Vitaly Borodin tried to sue Alla Pugacheva 5 million rubles in a case of protection of honor, dignity and business reputation.
The reason for the lawsuit was Pugacheva's interview with a journalist. Katerina Gordeeva, published on the YouTube channel "Say Gordeeva" in September 2025. Borodin considered that the eight-second fragment in which the singer calls the war a war and states "Borodin, get ready! Informers and snitches, attention!", defames his honor and dignity.
Borodin demanded that the video be removed from the internet; Pugacheva paid him 5 million rubles, recorded a retraction, and reimbursed all legal costs.
At trial, the defense insisted that the lawsuit was based on a distorted written transcript of a spoken remark: Borodin combined words into one sentence that were separated by pauses and intonation in the interview itself. A linguistic examination confirmed that the phrase "informers and snitches" did not directly refer to the head of the FPBC. He was addressed only by the remark, "Borodin, get ready."
"This is a critical value judgment based on numerous instances of his appeals to government agencies, which Borodin himself has publicly stated on numerous occasions. If the facts of the appeals themselves are true, then the question arises: should this be considered a denunciation or a regular appeal? And Pugacheva had the right to make such an assessment," Alla Pugacheva's lawyer explained in court. Catherine Zuban.
In response to Borodin's claim that he had allegedly never been publicly called an "informer" before, the defense included about 80 pages of media printouts in which the terms "informer" and "serial informer" were regularly used in relation to the activist.
Borodin himself did not attend the announcement of the court's decision, but stated that he would appeal it.
