The RA Court of Cassation has returned the suits filed by the Yerkir newspaper and MP Tigran Arzakantsyan.

MP Arzakantsyan had filed a slander suit against the paper.

On August 24 of this year, the Court of Appeals let stand the verdict of the lower court which each of the parties had appealed.

The lower court had decided that Yerkir had to pay 200,000 AMD in compensation and 80,000 for incurred legal fees to Arzakantsyan and publish a summary of the verdict.