INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A former Russian paratrooper who took part in the Russian invasion of Ukraine before fleeing the country and writing a book about his
experience has taken the prominent human rights NGO Gulagu.net, which helped him leave Russia, to court in an attempt to win back the
Pavel Filatyev's lawsuit claims that he was forced to transfer the book rights to Gulagu.net and the New Dissidents Foundation, the head
of both organizations, Vladimir Osechkin, told The Moscow Times on Thursday.According to Osechkin, Filatyev signed a copyright contract with
pro-war symbols in Russia.The advance payments from publishing contracts totalled over 300,000 euros ($315,763) and rights have already been
sold to a number of publishers around the world including in France, the U.S
March before being evacuated from the frontlines after an eye injury
He subsequently refused to redeploy, published his book on popular Russian social media site VK in early August, and then left Russia with
the help of Gulagu.net and requested political asylum in France.In an online exchange in August, Filatyev openly asked Osechkin to help him
with translating and publishing the book, clearly stating that he wanted to transfer all the rights to Gulagu.net and donate profits from
Moscow Times that the contract had been signed in the presence of lawyers and journalists, while one of the contract's conditions was that
