Olga Sechina has filed a lawsuit against «Novaya Gazeta» to protect her honour and dignity over an article about a yacht on which, according to the newspaper, she was vacationing. In Sechina's opinion, the article violated the right to privacy. The plaintiff demanded to remove all copies of it from the Internet, as well as to destroy all issues of «of Novaya Gazeta» for August 1, 2016, in which the article was printed.
The Basmanny court left Sechina's lawsuit unmoved due to errors in the statement of claim, according to RIA «News». The plaintiff has until August 31 to correct the identified errors.
A Novaya Gazeta article «» titled «The Secret of "Princess Olga"» claims that Olga Sechina (maiden name Rozhkova) is the wife of Rosneft head Igor Sechin. Journalists found Sechina's Instagram account and found many photos from her vacation aboard the yacht. According to external signs, the yacht turned out to be similar to the St. Princess Olga, an 85.6-meter vessel worth more than $100 million launched by Oceanco Shipyard in 2013. The geotags of the six photos posted on the Internet matched those of geolocation services that determine the location of the yachts using AIS data.
Rosneft's press service «» described the publication as part of a custom-made campaign against the company and its head.
