Moscow man sues 'Russia's Google' for publishing so much bad news his hair fell out
Bad news makes some people want to rip out their hair. But one Russian man claims reading it caused his to simply fall out.
A Moscow resident, who says he's suffering permanent stress and is losing his locks after reading too many negative news stories is suing Russia's Yandex News for 1 million rubles (around $15,000).
Roman Maslennikov argues that the overwhelming number of stories featuring bad news on the aggregator and search engine, known as the Google of Russia, caused him to go bald, his lawyer Vladimir Zhiganov told RIA Novosti.
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Zhiganov said the plaintiff's lawsuit asks for "the recovery of moral damages worth one million rubles" was filed with Moscow's Khamovniki court.
"We are also asking Yandex to be more attentive when checking the headlines of the published news stories," Zhiganov said.
Yandex has not commented on lawsuit. Mashable's request for comment was not immediately answered.
The lawsuit comes at a particularly difficult time for Russia. Tensions with the West are at their highest levels since the Cold War. And Western sanctions over Moscow's military actions in Ukraine compounded by the falling global oil price has sent its ruble spiraling and it economy reeling.
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Christopher is Mashable's Senior Correspondent covering world news, particularly the post-Soviet space and especially Ukraine, where he lived and worked for more than five years. As an editor at Ukraine's Kyiv Post newspaper, Christopher was part of the team that won the 2014 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism for coverage of the Euromaidan Revolution, Russia's annexation of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine. Besides Mashable, he has published with The Telegraph, The Times, The Independent and GlobalPost from such countries as Greece, Italy, Israel, Russia and Turkey, among others, as well as from aboard a search and rescue ship off the Libyan coast. Originally from rainy Portland, Oregon, he is also a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Ukraine) currently based in New York.
