Vedomosti won back at RBC

We painted a note published the day before yesterday in Commerce about the lawsuit against Delit.net, focusing on its affiliation with RBC. Vedomosti unearthed official information about this, diluting it with stupid excuses from RBC (such as "Igor Zuev refused to confirm that he works at RBC, although Vedomosti phoned him through a media telephonist.").

“If a Russian public company hides risks from shareholders, according to the law on joint-stock companies, shareholders can file a lawsuit against company directors,” said Igor Sosnovsky, a lawyer at Latham & Watkins. This doesn’t matter, but here’s a sad result: “If RBC really owns Divisit, it will be easier for them to close the site,” says Elena Bazhenova, an analyst at MDM Bank, “this will allow avoiding claims from copyright holders abroad.