MOSCOW, September 11 (RAPSI) – Businessman Sergey Mikhailov has filed an appeal against dismissal of his defamation lawsuit against Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny, press-service of the Lyublinksy District Court of Moscow told RAPSI on Monday.

The date of hearings is currently unknown.

On August 7, the court dismissed the lawsuit against Navalny and the Anti-Corruption Foundation regarding the “Chaika” article, published on the Foundation’s website, calling Mikhailov a gangster.

The court refused to declare this information libel and to oblige Navalny and the Foundation to publish refutation as well as to collect 250,000 rubles (about $4,200) in moral damages and 20,000 rubles (about $330) in court expenses from each defendant.

On May 31, the Lyublinsky District Court granted a defamation lawsuit filed by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov against Navalny. The court recognized information about Usmanov distributed by the Anti-Corruption Foundation and Navalny as discrediting and untrue and ordered the defendants to refute the statements.