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Rosbalt, January 29, 2004

Pensioners from St. Petersbourg are going to appeal to the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg

Two hundred residents of St. Petersburg who will become pensioners in 2004 are going to appeal to the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg. According to Rosbalt correspondent, this was announced by State Duma deputy Sergei Popov, YABLOKO, during a press conference on Thursday. According to Popov, “their decision is based on the fact that the Constitutional Court of Russia has acknowledged as lawful today norms of pension legislation that exclude from the labour term the years of study and years spent by a woman nursing a baby. First would-be pensioners have to appeal to a court of general jurisdiction where they will certainly get a refusal and only then can they appeal to the Strasbourg court,” said Popov. Popov also noted that the state had deceived its citizens, excluding in 2002 several years from the term of their labour record.

It should also be noted that in July 2003 deputies of the State Duma forwarded to the Constitutional Court an inquiry on the compliance of the provisions of new pension legislation with the Basic Law of the country. The inquiry was initiated by deputies from the YABLOKO faction Igor Artemyev and Sergei Popov. Another 115 deputies of the Duma (from the CPRF, the Agro-Industrial group and number of deputies from Russia’s Regions) also signed the document.

 

Rosbalt, January 29, 2004

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