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Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

With the constitutionalization of libel law, an increasingly important issue for the press has been which defamation plaintiffs will be regarded by courts as public figures. Public figure status carries with it a significantly higher level of fault - actual malice - than that which most private figure plaintiffs must demonstrate. One persistent question has been how the status question should be decided when the plaintiff is a corporation rather than a natural person. This study analyzes recent case law and formulates a tentative solution to the corporate public figure problem.

A rash of very public scandals, of which the behavior of President Clinton and the activities of the late Princess Diana are merely the most famous examples, has raised the question of the appropriateness of the disclosure, or the newsworthiness, of the so-called "private" lives of so-called "public" figures or "public" officials. That is the question I address in this essay.

In legal literature, the dissemination of false information on the Internet is referred to as online defamation. However, Ukrainian legislation does not enshrine this term, which creates difficulties with respect to legal protection against online defamation. So, the aim of the article is to determine the legal remedies for countering defamation of public figures on the Internet. The research involved the following methods: analysis, case study, graphic methods. The study revealed the main contradictions in defamation research and identified unexplored aspects of the issue. The legislation of Ukraine and other countries of the world with regard to defamation and protection against libel is examined. International aspects of providing protection against defamation and the researchers' recommendations on how to balance the right to freedom of expression and the right to privacy are studied. Highlighted in the conclusions are that the study established the need to improve Ukraine's legislative framework on defamation issues, make changes in educational programs and improve the media literacy of the population. Prospects for future research include the study of the means of settlement of defamation cases at the international level.

This article focuses on the years of Sharof Rashidov's presidency in Uzbekistan and his political, economic and social reforms for the country's development, as well as his positive work in overcoming the crisis in agriculture, irrigation, land reclamation and other areas.