Alexander Lebedev had been sentenced to 150 hours of compulsary labour on charges of battery by a Moscow court on Tuesday.
The incident took place between banking and media mogul Lebedev and real estate developer Sergey Polonsky during a TV show on state-run channel NTV in September 2011.
During the litigation, Lebedev asked world pop stars like Elton John to write recommendation letters in his support
Author: Mikhail Vesely