MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti) - New York Supreme Court Wednesday ruled to withdraw claims filed by a U.S. lawyer against popular Russian newspaper Argumenty i Fakty, while leaving in place claims against other paper, Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Julian Lowenfeld agreed to settle out of court with Argumenty i Fakty and to drop all claims against the newspaper in a long-running case over alleged non-payment.

Lowenfeld first took legal action against the papers in 1999 after they allegedly failed to pay him $434,000 in fees for winning a case against North American Russian-language weekly Kurier, which they accused of copyright violations.

A district court then ruled in Lowenfeld's favor, but the decision was never enforced. Lowenfeld then filed a suit with a higher court.

However, injunctions in place against Komsomolskaya Pravda remain in force following Wednesday's ruling.

Komsomolskaya Pravda editor in chief Vladimir Sungorkin said he was surprised at the ruling.

"Our situation is exactly the same [as Argumenty i Fakty's]," he said. "If the complaint against AiF is dropped, they should be dropped against us, because we are in exactly the same situation, and neither we or they have an agreement with Lowenfeld."