Children of militants killed during attack on the Kabardino-Balkaria capital are denied social protection

As the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has been informed, the widow of Rustam Nafedzev, participant in the attack on the Nalchik power authorities on October 13 who had three children of pre-school age, filed a law suit in the Nalchik town court against the refusal by the Pension Fund to allocate a social pension to the children. Some other widows are also preparing similar suits.

Initially, Yuri Barsagov, head of the Nalchik PF department, responded to the those who had applied for pension that the refusal was connected with the instruction of Alexei Sovrulin, chief of the investigation unit of the RF Directorate of the General Prosecution Office in the Southern Federal District, that, "until the procedural decision on the dismissal of criminal prosecution has been taken with regard to the persons whose death resulted from the suppression of the terrorist act committed by them, it is inadmissible to allocate a social pension for the loss of the bread-winner to relatives of the persons who committed the above crime."

Later, the head of the Nalchik PF department justified the refusal by citing the federal law "On State Pensions in RF ": "No pension shall be allocated to disabled family members of the participants in the armed attack on law enforcement officers, servicemen, citizens and organizations on the territory of Nalchik on 13.10. 2005."

When commenting on the refusal to allocate social pension to children of the killed militants, lawyer Larisa Dorogova who prepares the law suits said the following: "In allocating social pension, the Law "On State Pensions in RF" does not impose any conditions which prohibit payment of a state-defined monthly allowances to disabled persons. Social pension is a means of subsistence mentioned in Art. 2 of the Law. The law does not stipulate the conditions under which the child became an orphan. On the contrary, it highlights that everyone has the right to this pension. I think that it is a discrimination of the innocent children."

According to the "Caucasian Knot" information, half of the 93 militants killed in the Kabardino-Balkaria capital were married. There were two or three children in some families. There are cases when children were born after the death of their fathers.