Russian Army private Andrei Rudenko was forced to work outside his military unit by the unit's commander. On August 18 the soldier was found near Chita-Kadala road. He lost sight of right eye, got milt and liver rupture, double pneumonia, brain injury, and lost his right leg.
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Courts Close Cases against Defense Ministry
// Cases which threatened the ministry’s reputation
The following day after the resignation of Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, appointed the Cabinet’s first deputy prime minister on Thursday, two criminal cases fell apart in courts. The outcome of these cases could damage the reputation of the Defense Ministry. An officer, through whose fault a soldier became partially blind and lost one leg, received a suspended sentence from the garrison court of Chita. Meanwhile, Presnensky court of Moscow dismissed the suit of the widows of seamen who died in a sunken submarine. The widows demanded compensation of moral damages from the Defense Ministry.
Lance-corporal Andrei Rudenko, summoned for military service from Komsomolsk-na-Amure to a rail unit in Kadala village near Chita, returned from the army with one eye blind and without a leg. The case of the 24-year-old soldier reached court. However, the military court of Chita garrison, which considered the case of soldier Rudenko who suffered due to actions of the unit’s commander Colonel Nasimi Nazarov, decided that a suspended sentence is quite enough. Lawyers of the soldier will appeal against the ruling which they think is “too mild”.
Meanwhile, Presnensky court of Moscow yesterday dismissed the suit against the Defense Ministry filed by four widows of seamen who died in a sunken K-159 submarine on August 30, 2003, in the Barentsevo sea. The widows filed suits asking for compensation of moral damages back in summer 2006, but the process entered its final stage only yesterday.
Eventually, the court dismissed the widows’ lawsuits. Lawyer Svetlana Belova said that the dismissal’s motivation is unclear, for the judge read out the resolution part only. “However, we will anyway appeal against the ruling in a higher court. We will go to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, if necessary,” promised Belova.
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