Сase of Vasyl Stus book: court will continue consideration of Kipiani’s appeal on March 19

To recap, on October 19, 2020, the Darnytsia District Court of Kyiv partially sustained the claim of People's Deputy Viktor Medvedchuk against Vivat Publishing House and historian and journalist Vakhtang Kipiani to ban the publication and distribution of The Vasyl Stus Case.

In particular, the court found some of the phrases in the book to be inaccurate and ordered to delete them, and prohibit the distribution of the printed edition of the book and its further reproduction until the phrases containing information about Medvedchuk were eliminated. The court also ruled to ban Kipiani and the publisher from distributing book-related information in the press, radio, television, the Internet, and other media.

On November 30, the Kyiv Court of Appeals opened an appeal according to a complaint by journalist Vakhtang Kipiani's representative against the court's decision regarding the book The Case of Vasyl Stus.

"The Case of Vasyl Stus" was published by Vivat in 2019. The book contains documents from the archives of the former KGB of the USSR about the high-profile case of the poet Vasyl Stus, testimonies of witnesses, letters of the poet from prison, memories of his relatives and friends.