Well, the Internet is a good place to put and find the necessary information. However, if the information is defamatory and untrue then it needs to be taken out. The article needs to have credible allegations and not just biased information related to one person. The business is business and it doesn't need to be discriminatory against businessmen from other countries. The game needs to be played fair.

Faruk Turaev, San Jose, USA

Mr Usmanov is clearly a man of tolerance, humour, and profound sensitivity. That is a sensitivity to anything which might remotely affect his 'image'.

It's equally very clear exactly what that 'image' really is.

Shillings do themselves a disservice by acting for this Uzbek warlord. If I was a client of theirs (mercifully I am not), I would be seriously concerned. After all, how can they reconcile this with their finer principles (or is that principals, perhaps?).

Chuck Unsworth, London,

How come we allow a foul oligarch to silence warranted criticism? Oh - I forgot - this is England in 2007 when all kinds of things can nolonger be said openly.

Tony , UK,

The blogosphere is in uproar about this - and rightly so.

Mr Usmanov has every right to sue Craig Murray if he believes he's libelling him. In understand that Mr Murray welcomes the prospect. But this route, pressuring the hosting company, allows for no proper debate or legal resolution - it is strong-arm tactics, pure and simple.

It's shameful that Fasthosts capitulated in in this manner, pulling not just the offending article, but the whole of Craig Murray's site. The fact that other people's sites went down too - paying customers it should be remembered - is now blowing up in their faces, and serve them right too.

And of course the offending allegations are now more widely reported across the internet than ever before, which just goes to show what a poor strategic decision it was by Schillings.

Larry Elwes, Leeds, UK

Now's the time for the press to show they have balls, these spherical objects have been lacking for many years. Now's your time lads, show them what you're made of. Send this bully packing and issue a warning to any who mess with us, please.

mike, lincoln, u.k.