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Wed 11 Nov 2007€500,000 libel damages in Lawlor crash caseFive newspapers yesterday agreed to pay substantial libel damages to Julia Kushnir, the woman who survived the crash in Moscow in which Liam Lawlor died, a day after evidence emerged to show there was no justification for describing her as a prostitute.The Moscow police press office told a journalist working for the Sunday Independentand Observerin the immediate aftermath of Mr Lawlor's death in 2005 that Ms Kushnir was "just an acquaintance" of the dead politician and there was no evidence that she was a prostitute, according to a transcript of the recorded conversation provided to her lawyers on Monday.