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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/putin-in-libel-case-over-tv-claims.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin is being sued for libel" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-putin-in-libel-case-over-tv-claims.jpg" alt="Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin is being sued for libel"/></a></p>
<p>Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin is being sued for libel in a Moscow court in a rare case of the Kremlin-loyal justice system agreeing to hear a case against him.</p>
<p>The action was taken against Mr Putin after he used a TV call-in show to accuse his political enemies of stealing from the state.</p>
<p>Allowing a civil action against Mr Putin is out of character for Russia&#8217;s Kremlin-loyal courts, where the big decisions are thought to be dictated from above. Observers say it may be a carefully choreographed attempt to make the courts appear objective at a time when their reputation has been all but eroded.</p>
<p>It is equally possible that the case will be used to silence Mr Putin&#8217;s opponents &#8211; his legal team could incriminate the plaintiffs, if it presents what it calls evidence to back up the prime minister&#8217;s claims.</p>
<p>Mr Putin alleged in December that a trio of opponents who were once in the government or parliament took billions from state coffers in the 1990s.</p>
<p>He said former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, once-Deputy Energy Minister Vladimir Milov and former independent MP Vladimir Ryzhkov had gone broke and were now seeking power again to fill their pockets.</p>
<p>Before the court hearing Mr Nemtsov said he did not expect to win but the fact the suit was even admitted was a victory. Of the three, only Mr Ryzhkov was absent from Savyolovsky District Court. Mr Putin had a lawyer present. The plaintiffs are demanding Mr Putin retract the comments and pay a million roubles (£21,000) compensation.</p>
<p>In the call-in show, Mr Putin was asked what the three were pursuing.</p>
<p>&#8220;Money and power, what else do they want?&#8221; he said. &#8220;In their day they wrought havoc, in the 90s, (and) they stole quite a few billion along with the Berezovskys and others who are now in prison,&#8221; he said, referring to Boris Berezovsky, the London tycoon who made his riches in the post-Soviet privatisation period and fled in 2000 after falling out with Mr Putin.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve been deprived of the hand that feeds them, they&#8217;ve gone broke and now they want to come back and fill their pockets. But I think if we let them do that, they won&#8217;t stop at a few billion, and they&#8217;ll sell out the whole of Russia.&#8221;</p>
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