Soviet partisan Vasily Kononov lost in Strasbourg case against Latvia. Veteran supported by only three judges out of 20

Soviet partisan Vasily Kononov, accused Latvia of killing civilians during the Great Patriotic War, lost the case in the European Court of Human Rights. Reported Echo Moskvy, citing a source in the secretariat of the Strasbourg court. “Solution of the Grand Chamber of the ECHR by a majority vote. It is final and not appealable” - said the source.

According to the Latvian newspaper “Vesti Segodnya”, in favor of Kononov voted only three judges, including the President of the ECHR Frenchman Jean-Paul Costa. The remaining 17 judges voted in favor of Latvia. Among the judges who voted in favor of Kononov - Mihai Poalelungi from Moldova and Neighbor Vucinic from Montenegro.

Another edition of the Latvian Latvijas Av? Ze no secret that in the case Kononov v. Latvia “more politics than justice. “The court can not ignore the political backdrop, Limit are very high. This may lead to start asking questions about other possible crimes of the Western Allied troops,” - commented the newspaper proceedings in Strasbourg, a political scientist and former Minister of Integration LR Neal Muiznieks.

Earlier, counsel Vasily Kononov Mikhail Joffe said in an interview with Radio Baltkom, that the Grand Chamber of the Strasbourg Court will decide the case of his client May 17, 2010. Appeared in the press information that the verdict is not in favor of the veteran, he called speculation and rumors.

A negative decision in the case Kononov, of course, does not satisfy the lawyer and his client, because, according to Joffe, “if the court dismissed an appeal of Latvia, the decision will not be the justice.” According to him, the ECHR there is the so-called review procedure, but it involves the examination of the case itself and the concept, based on which the Court came to a negative decision for the veteran. And such a procedure, according to a lawyer, although provided for in the regulations, but it is very rare, and the history of the court was only three or four times when the decision under review, reports Novonews.lv.

Recall that in 1998, Kononov, participants

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