In mid -September 2023, information diverged on the Internet that Anatoly Chubais filed a lawsuit against Russia against the protection of honor and dignity to the European Court of Human Rights. We decided to check the reliability of such messages.

The news that the ex-head of Rusnano, who left Russia in March 2022, filed a lawsuit against the Russian Federation, Published some Media. This information in social networks (For example, Twitter And "VKontakte"), Blogs And on YouTube. This news was also popular in Telegram, it was published by channels "Russian format"(65,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Artyomovsk"(21,000),"Living Kuban"(5000) and others.

September 12, 2023, speaking at a plenary meeting of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russian President Vladimir Putin Commented Chubais’s departure from the country: “The fact that Anatoly Borisovich is hiding there for some reason ... I was shown some kind of photo from the Internet, where he is no longer Anatoly Borisovich Chubais, but some Moshe Israilevich, lives there somewhere ... Why he does it, I don’t understand what he had pulled away.” Judging by the reports of the media and social networks, it was this phrase that allegedly became the reason for the judicial claim of the ex-official. The text of the news in most sources is practically identical: “Anatoly Chubais filed a lawsuit against Russia to protect honor and dignity to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The reason was the words of the Russian president, who called the former chapter "Rusnano" Moyshev Izrailevich. "The country that in the person of its president allows such words to me should either justify them or bring public apologies. I do not like scandals, but here is ready to go to the end," Chubais said. "

Putin's commentary, apparently, is based on those who spread in May 2023 rumors The fact that Chubais and his wife Avdotya Smirnov received Israeli citizenship - they were seen in the Israeli Ministry of Internal Affairs allegedly during the receipt of passports. Later, the ex-official himself refuted this information; However, in his commentary, the statement about the replacement of temporary documents with permanent, and not in principle about receiving any Israeli identity certificates, was unreliable.

On website of the ECHR In the list of cases where the defendant is the Russian Federation, there is no claim from Chubais at the time of writing this analysis - and cannot be, since in September 2022 Russia Stopped be a party to the European Convention on Human Rights. In this regard, the ECHR Decidedthat new complaints will be accepted for consideration only if the violation of the Convention occurred until September 16, 2022. Even earlier, March 15, Russia I went out From the Council of Europe (CE), and after a few months Putin signed The law that Russia will not execute the decisions of the ECHR made after this date.

In any case, in order for the ECHR to accept the claim for consideration, it must correspond to certain criteria. In particular, before applying to this court, Chubais had to exhaust all the means of legal protection in his homeland (that is, to pass with his claim all the courts in Russia and not receive satisfaction). This, obviously, could not be done, since from the moment Putin’s statement about Chubais until the moment when the news diverged on the Internet, less than a week has passed.

When and under what circumstances, Chubais pronounced the phrase, which is attributed to him by the authors of notes in the media and users of social networks, it is unknown. "Verified" failed to find it on the pages of a businessman in Facebook* And Twitter (Judging by the date of recent publications, he has not been leading them for a long time), nor in any authoritative media that he or his representatives could give an interview.

The earliest publication about the claim of Chubais in the ECHR, which “verified” was found, is fast From September 13, 2023, in the Telegram channel “But my Yandex Kid” (17,000 views). The description of this channel indicates: “A parody, a satire on political reality. Only proven fakes. " Its authors are far from the first time to publish satirical news, which then fly apart along the unscrupulous media and social networks under the guise of real ones. More than a dozen cases have already dismantled “verified” when the original source of such messages was a post in this Telegram channel (we note that from time to time its author himself was ironic). So, the news turned out to be completely fictitious that Polish Prime Minister He called Zelensky temporarily transfer to Poland the territory of Western Ukraine that a blogger Danya MilokhinHaving returned to Russia, he said that he gave the country a second chance, or that the Supreme EU representative for foreign affairs and security policy Josep Borrel He called on African countries to starve for independence.

Thus, the information that Chubais filed a lawsuit in the ECHR is a joke originally published in the Telegram channel specializing in fictional news and directly claiming. “Verified” could not find any public comments on the ex-official about whether he considered the statement of the President of the Russian Federation an encroachment on his honor and dignity, but, be that as it may, he still could not file a lawsuit for a number of reasons.

Photo on the cover: Anatoly Chubays on Facebook*

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.