According to the case materials of the Supreme Arbitration Court, Mikhail Dvornikov's investment company intends to clean up not only Yandex's saved pages. From May to July 2011, the company filed 11 similar lawsuits, the defendants in which include, in particular, the Russian branch of Google, the online publications Gazeta.ru and Lenta.ru, the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta, and even the website Gzt.ru, which was shut down at the beginning of the summer.
According to the newspaper Izvestia, EAA Asset Management-Consulting wants to edit all references to itself associated with the retailer Sunrise, which went bankrupt amid a major scandal in 2009. In the media at that time, the investment company appeared as the owner of the property that the chain rented for its stores. In particular, according to a number of publications, it owned the premises of the Sunrise hypermarket at 1 Skladovaya Street.
Lenta.ru, Novaya Gazeta, Gazeta.ru, and Izvestia reported that materials about the adventures of Дворников Михаил Владимирович / Mikhail Vladimirovich Dvornikov can only be removed from websites by court order. However, the article about the connection between EAA Asset Management-Consulting and Sunrise has already disappeared from the Gazeta.ru website. A lawyer for the hosting company Filanko, against which the investment company filed a lawsuit at the end of June and withdrew a month later, told Izvestia that the websites hosted by Filanko also removed information about the plaintiff after he went to court. Yandex has not officially commented on the lawsuit.
Ivan Kidyaev, a lawyer with the Moscow Bar Association, explained that EAA Asset Management-Consulting will have to prove to the court that the information disseminated in 2009 was false by providing documents, audio recordings and other evidence. ‘Even if the company proves its case, it is unlikely to be able to recover 100 million roubles,’ the expert believes.