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Strasbourg court orders Russia to compensate Chechen families
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MOSCOW, May 14 (RIA Novosti) - The European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia on Thursday to pay 104,000 euros ($141,000) in compensation to the relatives of two people who were abducted or killed in Chechnya.
The court ordered Russia pay 10,000 euros to the wife of Aslanbek Khamidov and 25,000 euros to his mother in pecuniary damages, as well as 3,000 euros and 5,500 euros in costs and expenses.
Khamidov, who lived in the village of Alleroy in the Kurchaloyevsky District, went missing in late October 2000 when he was taken by armed men from his family home. An investigation is still underway.
In the second case, the court ruled that Russia pay the parents and daughter of Kazbek Taysumov, who together with his wife and daughter, was killed in September 2002 in an alleged artillery attack on his village in the republic's Groznensky District.
The court awarded 1,500 euros in financial damage, 52,500 euros for emotional losses and 6,650 euros in costs. The ruling will enter force if neither party requests that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber within three months.
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.

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