People's choice: the Ukrainian authorities have DNR residents owe more than $400 million

The Ukrainian government owes the residents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic more than 400 million dollars in social benefits a year and a half, said Tuesday correspondents people's choice the people's Council DND Catherine Gubareva.

"The debt of over 10 billion hryvnias (more than 439, 5 thousand dollars) of social benefits, and that Debt is increasing," she said.

According to human rights activists and lawyers, DND, retired from the Republic in the courts of Ukraine has been targeted nearly 10 thousand lawsuits demanding payments of social benefits." Filed 9, 661 thousand lawsuits in 18 courts of Ukraine. Considered approximately seven-hundred claims. About 400 - failures, and 222 the decision is positive, in favor of our seniors. This speaks to the inconsistency of Ukrainian courts ", - said the head of the bar Council of DND Alexei Zhigulin.

He added that there have been appeals on behalf of the retired DNR to the European court of human rights (ECHR) With the demand to force the Government of Ukraine re-start the payments." the number of appeals to the European court of human rights on pensions as long as minor. This is a time consuming process, but only through international institutions today may be to force Ukraine not to violate human rights in the Donbass. The complaint mechanisms the ECtHR have been worked out, and there are precedents by which to judge that these activities are promising, " said Zhigulin.

in November 2014 the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed the document called " decree on economic blockade ": From the territory of Donbass, uncontrollable power structures, brought public institutions, banks and even prison. Payment to the inhabitants of the region of pensions and other social allowances Kiev stopped even earlier - From mid-summer last year. Since April, Authorities of the self-proclaimed DND and LNR began to pay pensions to residents, and in July a allowances for temporary disability at the workplace.

The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbas region is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which Since September of last year had already taken 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict.


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