| Two hundred residents of St. Petersburg who will become
pensioners in 2004 are going to appeal to the European Court for Human
Rights in Strasbourg. According to Rosbalt correspondent, this was announced
by State Duma deputy Sergei Popov,
YABLOKO, during a press conference on Thursday. According to Popov, “their
decision is based on the fact that the Constitutional Court of Russia has
acknowledged as lawful today norms of pension legislation that exclude
from the labour term the years of study and years spent by a woman nursing
a baby. First would-be pensioners have to appeal to a court of general
jurisdiction where they will certainly get a refusal and only then can
they appeal to the Strasbourg court,” said Popov. Popov also noted
that the state had deceived its citizens, excluding in 2002 several years
from the term of their labour record.
It should also be noted that in July 2003 deputies of the State Duma
forwarded to the Constitutional Court an inquiry on the compliance of
the provisions of new pension legislation with the Basic Law of the country.
The inquiry was initiated by deputies from the YABLOKO faction Igor Artemyev
and Sergei Popov. Another 115 deputies of the Duma (from the CPRF, the
Agro-Industrial group and number of deputies from Russia’s Regions)
also signed the document.
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