Rostov Region: protesting miners-pensioners file new claims to the European Court

In the Rostov Region, miners-pensioners from the city of Zverevo, who are striving for their privileges on heating, are filing new claims to the European Court on Human Rights. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Valery Dyakonov, deputy of the municipal duma of Zverevo. The pensioners continue their pickets and hunger strike.

"We're drafting new complaints as the local court passes decisions obliging the pensioners to pay out their debts for heating," said Mr Dyakonov. "Many of them have their property already sequestrated by court marshals, people have to pay, in spite of the fact that the dispute on the privilege for heating is not over yet."

According to Valery Dyakonov, the city court passes several decisions per day in favour of the organization-supplier of heat, and "the total number of judgements is already over one thousand."

The deputy said that after the European Court on Human Rights accepted complaints of more than 30 Zverevo residents to consideration and notified them about it, the number of potential claimants to Strasbourg has went up.

The miners-pensioners of Zverevo would not stop picketing and hunger strike. "The authorities are still deaf to us. The work of the commission set up to consider our problems at the Regional Legislative Assembly yielded no results," Mr Dyakonov believes.