Pechersky District Court of Kyiv has postponed for two weeks the hearing of an appeal lodged by Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Volosiuk against President Viktor Yanukovych on the protection of honor and dignity in connection with the president's statement on the Holodomor famine.
A court meeting was postponed for two weeks in response to a request by Volosiuk, a member of the Popular Rukh of Ukraine who lives in Khmelnytsky.
As reported, Yanukovych said at a PACE session in Strasbourg on April 27, 2010 that in his opinion, it would be incorrect to recognize the famine of the 1930s as genocide against the Ukrainian people.
In his appeal, Volosiuk said that that with this statement the head of state had insulted his honor and dignity and "committed an act of outrage against the millions of people destroyed in such a criminal manner."
Volosiuk asked the court to issue a ruling obliging the president to publicly apologize to the plaintiff and the Ukrainian people.
