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		</div><p>The owners of a Russian bank have filed a lawsuit against the online publication BuzzFeed for publishing an uncorroborated dossier that alleged they were part of a Russian scheme to influence the 2016 US presidential election.</p>
<p>Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan of Alfa Bank are seeking unspecified damages from BuzzFeed, editor-in-chief Ben Smith, reporter Ken Bensinger, and editors Miriam Elder and Mark Schoofs. The dossier published on January 10 included explosive claims that Russian officials had compiled compromising information about Donald Trump. He called the report &#8220;fake news&#8221;.</p>
<p>BuzzFeed admitted the allegations were unverified and &#8220;potentially unverifiable&#8221;, but defended publishing the report because it said Americans &#8220;can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect&#8221;.</p>
<p>Other news outlets withheld most details about the unverified claims because they could not confirm them.<br />
The dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent claimed that Mr Fridman, Mr Aven and Mr Khan had a history of exchanging illicit favours with Russian President Vladimir Putin (pictured).</p>
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