Pravda Has ‘Naked Facts’ on Sunning

MOSCOW — A small but determined band of nudists won a Supreme Court battle in Estonia after local officials had banned them from sunbathing in the nude, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda said on Friday.

Pravda eschewed its usual strait-laced style to report on the incident under the headline “The Naked Facts.”

It said the fuss began when “couples dressed like Adam and Eve” appeared on an Estonian beach a few years ago and officials denied them permission to have a private stretch of sand. The nudists then hired bulldozers to build a sand wall.

The nudists were told to level the sand wall.

They refused and took the officials to court. When they lost the case, they appealed to the Estonian Supreme Court which ruled in their favor. That was one year ago.

Now, Pravda said, the nudists had doubled the height of their sand wall and could legally bask in the sun in their “birthday suits.”