The decision made by Strasbourg Court into the case of deported Georgian citizens from the territory of the Russian Federation was unprecedented and Russia’s defeat.

Tea Tsulukiani, Justice Minister talked about international disputes within the framework of the Ministerial Hour at the plenary session in the parliament today.

Tsulukiani said that work was ongoing on enforcement of the decision. She reported that Russia still had time to pay to Georgia.

On January 31, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights announced the Judgment concerning Georgian citizens’ deportation from Russia. Based on the decision, Russia has to pay Georgia 10,000,000 euros (EUR) in respect of non-pecuniary damage suffered by a group of at least 1,500 Georgian nationals.

That amount was to be distributed to the individual victims by paying EUR 2,000 to the Georgian nationals who had been victims only of a violation of Article 4 of Protocol No. 4 (collective expulsion), and EUR 10,000 to EUR 15,000 to those among them who had also been victims of a violation of Article 5 § 1 (unlawful deprivation of liberty) and Article 3 (inhuman and degrading conditions of detention) of the European Convention on Human Rights, taking into account the length of their respective periods of detention.

The Russian Federation was given a 3-month term to pay moral compensation to the Georgian state.