The European court of human rights (ECHR) has obliged the authorities of Russia to pay to the Deputy Valery Rashkin €7800 as compensation for the fact that in 2010 it collected 1 million rubles for moral harm to the speaker of the lower house of Parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin.
In a judgment published on its website, also States that in case of nonpayment within three months on the amount will begin to accrue interest.
The ECHR’s decision was the result of a complaint Rashkin on the verdict of the Leninsky district court of Saratov handed down in 2010. Then the court ordered him to pay one million rubles at the suit of Vyacheslav Volodin (at that time he was Vice-speaker of the state Duma).
The court assessed in the same amount of the mention of the names of Volodina on the rally November 7, 2009 among the perpetrators “in crimes against the people and the Russian nation”. He Volodin asked to collect from Rashkin five million rubles.
This amount is not only extremely high in absolute terms, but also many times exceed those that are awarded the decisions on comparable cases of defamation, — stated in the decision of the ECHR.
As previously wrote NEWS.ru, the number of appeals to the European court of human rights Russia is on the 18th place out of 47 countries in the Council of Europe. This was announced by the Ministry of justice.
