MOSCOW, October 2 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow...

During the Facing the City talk show on the TV-Center channel in June, Luzhkov used the word "fags" when referring to members of the gay community.

Nikolai Alekseyev, an activist who has attempted a number of times without success to organize a gay parade in Moscow, said that no one should be allowed to offend any group of people or individual.

"In making such a ruling, the court risks making rudeness the law," Alekseyev told RIA Novosti on Friday.

A TV-Center representative said there was no offense or defamation to any concrete plaintiff in Luzhkov"s use of the word.

"This whole process is extremely politicized. Their goal is publicity, I don"t see any other purpose," the representative said.

Alekseyev had filed a suit against the mayor for one kopek and said he plans to appeal the court"s decision.

"We were refused the right to have a linguistic expert [research the word] and I"m sure that that expertise would have proven that what the

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