MOSCOW, July 3 - RIA Novosti. The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to pay back the debts of the Soviet Union on premium bonds of the state internal winning loan, issued in 1982.

In the document published on the court's website it is noted that after the collapse of the USSR, Russia undertook to pay off debt to the bondholders, but failed to fulfill its obligations.

"Today, in the decision on the case of Volokitin and Others v. Russia, the ECHR unanimously recognized violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights with respect to some participants," the document says.

The court ruled that Russia must pay a different amount to three of the 15 applicants, and in addition to compensation for moral damage, each of them should be allocated an additional 1800 euros.

To the remaining plaintiffs, the ECtHR decided to reimburse court costs in the amount of 30 to 1,500 euros.

"Purely technical solution"

An expert on international law Vladislav Orshev expressed the opinion that the decision of the ECtHR must be perceived as purely technical. According to him, the decisions of the international court are taken not in one month, but sometimes even in one decade.

The lawyer noted that Russia recognized its debts under the bonds of 1982, the payment procedure was simply not fully implemented.

"And the ECtHR drew attention to this in its decision, and he appealed to the Council of Europe to discuss the mechanism of payments for debts, which, I emphasize, are recognized by the Russian Federation, and therefore I tend to believe that the court rendered a technical decision in many respects," - said a specialist on the radio Sputnik.

Russian experts differed in assessing the decision of the Strasbourg Court. President and member of the executive committee of the Russian Association of International Law, international lawyer Anatoly Kapustin believes that the ECHR decision should be interpreted as a statement and it does not mean the automatic redemption of all such bonds.

At the same time, the Senior Lecturer of the Moscow State Aviation Administration, an expert of the INFD, Denis Primakov, believes that the absence of a clearly stated provision in the Russian legislation on this issue does not relieve the state of payments.