A Moscow court rejected a 30-million-rouble (€874,000) lawsuit by ballerina Anastasia Volochkova over a newspaper report that implied she had been sacked by the Bolshoi Ballet because she was overweight, news reports said.

A Moscow court today rejected a 30-million-rouble (€874,587) lawsuit by ballerina Anastasia Volochkova over a newspaper report that implied she had been sacked by the Bolshoi Ballet because she was overweight, news reports said.