The ECHR ordered Russia to pay 69 thousand euros to the family of the deputy head of the Chechen Ministry of Emergency Situations Yunusov, who was shot with a machine gun in 2002

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia to pay the mother and brother of Chechen Deputy Minister for Emergency Situations Ruslan Yunusov, who died in 2002, compensation for material damage and moral harm in the total amount of 69 thousand euros, the Justice Initiative project told Mediazona. The text of the decision is published on the court's website.

The victim’s mother, Khazan Yunusova, and brother, Uruskhan Yunusov, were awarded compensation in the amount of 9 thousand euros for material damage and 60 thousand euros for moral damage. The court ruled that the Russian authorities were responsible for violating Articles 2 and 13 (the right to life and an effective investigation in the event of death, as well as the right to an effective remedy) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Ruslan Yunusov was mortally wounded on January 4, 2002 in Grozny, when during a special operation a conflict occurred between his subordinates and federal military personnel: when a combat reconnaissance and patrol vehicle drove into the courtyard of the Chechen Ministry of Emergency Situations building, the leadership of the Ministry of Emergency Situations was informed that it had been fired upon a few days earlier the car of EMERCOM employee Lom-Ali Miraev; he was seriously wounded. Emergency Situations Ministry employees tried to detain the crew of the car to clarify the circumstances of the incident, but the driver drove the car away.

Deputy Minister Yunusov came to negotiate with the military, jumped on the armored vehicle and tried to stop it, but the military fired two bursts from a machine gun, rammed the gate and drove away. Yunusov received two bullet wounds and died in the hospital.

After the incident, two servicemen were detained, but their trial never took place. In their complaint to the ECHR, the relatives wrote that the investigation was suspended five times, and the perpetrators were never brought to justice.