Businessman defends Navalny's Kremlin critic

moscow - Alisjer Oesmanov, one of the richest businessmen of Russia, has Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to court for defamation.

Oesmanov is co-owner of English soccer club Arsenal. He also has business interests that include an iron ore producer and a mobile-phone company. His name is mentioned in a report released last month on corruption Navalny around Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev.

Medvedev made the accusations against him out as 'nonsense', but Oesmanov announced Navalny to court to wish days for defamation.

'Excellent, which he should do,' responded Navalny, who last month throughout Russia, thousands of people managed to get on his feet for a protest against corruption. In the presidential election next year Navalny hopes to take the candidate of the Kremlin.