chernobyl
Kabardino-Balkaria Supreme Court denies compensation for Chernobyl ‘liquidators’
The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has denied compensation for ‘psychological damages’ to emergency workers from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster because they ‘filed their application too late’. In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that a group of ‘Chernobyl Liquidators’ — civilian and military personnel who worked to contain the effects of the 1986 disaster — were entitled to compensation previously withheld from them. On 28 April, a group of six liquidators asked the court
