The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) called on Russia to provide within a month information about how it intends to guarantee that the Moldovan-administered Latin-script schools in Transnistria will continue to work in the 2014/2015 school year. The call was made in the Strasbourg meeting of June 4-6.
The Committee also asked the Russian Federation to present, by September 1, 2014, a complete plan of action or a report on the compliance with the European Court of Human Rights decision by which Russia was obliged to pay by €6,000 damages to the 170 plaintiffs from Tighina (Bender), Grigoriopol and Rybnitsa, plus €50,000 court costs. After almost one year and a half, Russia hasn’t yet fulfilled its obligations, IPN reports, quoting a communiqué of the public association Promo-LEX, whose jurists represented the plaintiffs at the ECHR.
The Committee expressed its deep concern caused by the signals of the continuous violation of the right to education in Moldova’s Transnistrian region by acts of intimidation and pressure that affect the functioning of the Latin-script schools. It insists that the Russian authorities should pay the damages to the plaintiffs without further delay. The Council agreed to reexamine this case in its 1,208th meeting of September 2014.
