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Rukh CHESNO, together with the lawyer of the project “Svoi liudy” (Bihus.Info) Oleksii Boiko, won the case against Maksym Buzhansky in the first instance and on appeal. The deputy demanded the removal of his profile from the “Register of Traitors,” and for the published information about him to be declared untrustworthy and refuted.
In January 2026 year, the Shevchenkivskyi District Court denied the deputy from the Servant of the People faction Maksym Buzhansky's claim against Rukh CHESNO and Detektor media.
The deputy demanded protection of his honor, dignity and business reputation, as well as refutation and deletion of information about him. In particular, Buzhansky wanted Rukh CHESNO to delete his profile from the “Register of Traitors,” and to declare the information published there untrustworthy and to refute it.
Additionally, Buzhansky's claim concerned Detektor media’s article “Nazist Maidan and the Heroic USSR. Maksym Buzhansky’s views,” published in August 2019 year on the MediaSapiens site. Rukh CHESNO also cited this material. Specifically, Buzhansky demanded to refute the phrase from the article: “Generally, the newly minted ‘servant of the people’ has a nearly full set of traits of a pro-Russia blogger/politician.”
The court concluded that the disseminated information was an expression of personal opinion and a subjective assessment of Buzhansky’s actions as a public politician.
The deputy did not agree with the decision and filed an appeal. But 31 August 2026 year, the Kyiv Court of Appeal left Maksym Buzhansky’s complaint without consideration.
“The essence of the dispute lies in the deputy’s disagreement with his own profile posted on PolitHub. In this way, the appellate court agreed with the findings of the first-instance court that the subject of the dispute is an evaluative judgment, which cannot be refuted in court. We will be able to familiarize ourselves with the motives of the Kyiv Court of Appeal after the full text of the ruling is published,” said Oleksii Boiko, lawyer for the project “Svoi liudy” (Bihus.Info).
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