KBR's SC rejects compensation claim of 55 Chernobyl accident liquidators

55 residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), received a refusal of the republic's Supreme Court (SC) to pay them compensations as assigned by the courts of the first instance.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in 2011-2012 the KBR considered 489 complaints lodged by Chernobyl liquidators who claimed for compensation of the moral harm they had suffered. Then, courts satisfied the claims; however, only 182 persons managed to receive their compensation, as a year later the SC of the KBR revoked the compensation judgments.

Zaur Shomakhov, an advocate, representing the interests of Chernobyl liquidators at trials, said that he had sent two written requests to the Prosecutor's Office of the KBR about the fate of the criminal cases against 10 liquidators, who, according to investigators, gave false testimonies in the case of Alkhasova; however, he failed to receive any official response.

According to Shomakhov, earlier he addressed the Investigating Committee with a request to stop these cases. "We were offered to stop them under amnesty, but we didn't agree," he said, adding that now nothing is undertaken in relation to these cases.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.