On Thursday the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia should pay four Moldovan insurgents who fought in Transdniestria in the early 1990s a compensation worth about $1 million. One of four persons claimed eligible to the compensation is former Moldovan dissenter Ilya Ilashku who urged to get Moldova join Romania.
"We think that the ruling was politically motivated and indicates that the court was biased when considering the case, thus undermining the authority of such an important institution as the European Court of Human Rights," the statement reads.
According to Russian legislators, Russia ratified the Human Rights conventions and Protocols thereto in 1998, while the Ilashku case dates back to 1992.
Chairman of the House Committee for Civil, Criminal, Arbitration, and Procedural Legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov described the ruling as "a legal nonsense."
Ilashku who had urged Moldova to join Romania was arrested by the military administration of the self-proclaimed republic of Transdniestria and convicted of double murder.
Freed in May 2001 due to pressure from international organizations, Ilashku has moved to Romania where has been living since then. Later he was elected to the Romanian Senate.
