Court rules to collect 80,000 roubles from military unit in Tskhinvali in favour of soldier injured during service

Today, the Mamadysh District Court of Tatarstan passed a ruling in absentia on the suit and obliged the Military Unit No. 66431, stationed in the capital of South Ossetia, to pay out 80,000 roubles to Danis Zakirov as compensation of moral harm in connection with injuries that he received during his service.

On May 28, 2010, Private Danis Zakirov was busy with maintenance work on combat vehicles in an outdoor parking. When he approached an armoured personnel carrier (APC), as reported by the Kazan Human Rights Centre (HRC), Sergeant Alexander Matveev, who was at the steering wheel of the APC, suddenly started moving backwards, knocked the private off his feet and rode over his body.

According to the HRC, in January 2011, the Vladikavkaz Garrison Military Court found Alexander Matveev guilty of violating the rules of driving a combat vehicle and sentenced him to one year of conditional imprisonment. The convict also paid 8770 roubles to the victim, which the latter spent on advocate's services.
"The Kazan HRC helped Danis Zakirov to file a claim to the military unit worth 700,000 roubles as compensation of moral harm," says the statement.

"The court has dropped by almost 9 times the amount of compensation requested by Danis Zakirov. We will definitely appeal against this ruling at the Supreme Court of Tatarstan, as we believe that 80,000 roubles is disproportionate to the physical and moral sufferings that they guy had suffered," said the lawyer Regina Shakirova, who represented Zakirov's interests on the initiative of the Kazan HRC.