FACTBOX-European court rulings that have irked Russia
Source: Reuters
Jan 11 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg was handing down "politicised" rulings against Russia. Here are some of the court's most high-profile rulings, which have overturned decisions made by Russian authorities and, in some cases, angered the Kremlin. * In October last year, the court found Russia responsible for the deaths of five Chechens and ordered it to pay compensation to the victims' relatives. The five, who were all members of the same family and included a one-year-old child and a heavily pregnant women, were found dead from gunshot wounds in 2000. The court ruled the deaths "could be attributed to the Russian state". * A month later, the court held Russia responsible for the death of nurse Nura Luluyeva, whose body was found in a mass grave in the Chechen capital, Grozny, in 2001. She had disappeared the previous year. The court's judges said evidence pointed to Russian authorities being responsible for the death, and criticised Russia for failing to carry out a proper investigation. * In January 2006, the court ordered Russia to pay 250,000 euros ($323,800) to Alexei Mikheyev. He was taken in by police over the disappearance of a teenage girl. He told the court that to escape torture by police officers trying to force him to confess to abducting her, he jumped from a second-floor window. He landed on a motorbike and is now permanently paralysed from the waist down. The same day, the missing girl returned home unharmed. * In 2004, the court said Russia must take part of the blame for the treatment of Ilie Ilascu, who was sentenced to death in Transdniestria, a breakaway region of ex-Soviet Moldova, but later released. The court said at the time of his detention the region was under the de facto control of Russia, which backs the separatists and has troops based there. Commenting on Thursday on that ruling, Russian President Vladimir Putin said: "Russia was accused of something which she had nothing to do with. This is a clear political decision which undermines confidence in the international court system."
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