Ballerina loses 'fat slur' lawsuit
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.
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.
