The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) passed its judgment on Georgia vs. Russia case based on which Russia has to pay 129 million Euros to Georgia.

The case concerned allegations by the Georgian Government of administrative practices on the part of the Russian Federation entailing various breaches of the Convention, in connection with the armed conflict between Georgia and the Russian Federation in August 2008.

Russia had to compensate Georgia EUR 3,250,000 within three months in respect of the victims of killing civilians in Georgian villages in occupied South Ossetia and in the “buffer zone”, torching and looting of houses, degrading treatment and arbitrary detention of Georgian civilians in August of 2008.

The Grand Chamber took an additional decision under Article 41 of the Convention notwithstanding the cessation of the Russian Federation’s membership in the Council of Europe, and the respondent Government’s failure to cooperate when examining the case.

Also, the respondent State was to pay the applicant Government, within three months, EUR 2,697,500 in respect of non-pecuniary damage suffered by a group of at least 166 victims of the administrative practice of inhuman and degrading treatment and arbitrary detention of Georgian civilians held by the South Ossetian forces;

Russia was to pay the applicant Government, within three months, EUR 640,000 in respect of non-pecuniary damage suffered by a group of at least 16 victims of the administrative practice of torture of Georgian prisoners of war detained by the South Ossetian forces in Tskhinvali;

The respondent State was to pay the applicant Government, within three months, EUR 115,000,000 in respect of non-pecuniary damage suffered by a group of at least 23,000 victims of the administrative practice of preventing the return of Georgian nationals to their respective homes in South Ossetia and Abkhazia;

Russia was to pay the applicant Government, within three months, EUR 8,240,000 in respect of non-pecuniary damage suffered by a group of at least 412 victims of the respondent Government’s failure to comply with their procedural obligation to carry out an adequate and effective investigation into the deaths which had occurred during the active phase of the hostilities.