Ballerina loses 'overweight slur' lawsuit

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.

The judge found that the article in the newspaper Argumenty I Fakty, which quoted Bolshoi general director Anatoly Iksanov, did not damage her reputation as she claimed, according to the news agency ITAR-Tass.