MOSCOW, November 11 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian woman, who lost her son in Chechnya in 2000, has filed a $1.5-million suit against Russia, Russian media said on Wednesday.
A respected Russian business daily Kommersant said Dina Chugunova had requested the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to award her 1 million euro in compensation for financial and moral damages.
Chugunova had earlier filed similar suits to courts in St. Petersburg, but her appeals were rejected on the grounds that the statute of limitation had expired.
The woman says, however, that Russia's actions are in breach of the European convention on Human Rights.
According to Kommersant, more suits from women, who lost their sons during the two separatist wars in Chechnya, might follow.
Russia has lost the majority of cases brought against it in the Strasbourg court. In 2008, the court ruled against Russia 245 times. Overall, around 20% of all complaints made to the Court in the past decade have involved Russia.
