appearing to connect with the side of his head polanski then fell off the back of the stage in his blog mr lebedev has been defending himself saying that mr polanski was behaving very aggressively in the debate and that he thought he was about to be hit the owner of the newspapers the london evening standard and the independent claims that the charges are politically motivated his son says that they are outrageously disproportionate russian billionaires have been known to be involved in bitter disputes the tycoon boris berezovsky last month failed in his attempt to sue roman abramovich for five point five billion dollars all right i'm sure a lot of people will be following that story tom thank you very much for that. in georgia staying still is becoming harder and harder for competing parties ahead of the parliamentary election in one town one opposition leader's visit was celebrated with an older fashion brawl incumbent president saakashvili supporters attempted to block his rival's entourage as it entered the city rocks and bottles were sent flying as police stood idly by preferring not to inter