Today, a Yerevan court decided to reject the suit brought by Yuri Mnatsakanyan against the RA National Institute of Health, Vigen Shahinyan and news.am, as a third party.

Mnatsakanyan had argued that Shahinyan’s words, used in a news.am report entitled “40-100 Employees of the National Health Institute are Joining the Ranks of the Unemployed” were libellous.

Mnatsakanyan had sued for 1 million AMD in damages.

Instead, the plaintiff will have to pay 20,000 in court fees.