Russia does not admit involvement of state officials in the death of two pupils from a shell in Chechnya in 2000. The Strasbourg Court (ECtHR) is accusing the Russian Federation of inefficient investigation of this case.
Russia, as explained by a human rights defender, who knows the details of considering the case in Strasbourg, denied any involvement of state officials in the death of the boys.
According to the expert, the state also said that "it will be possible to state any involvement of public servants in the death of schoolchildren only after the end of the investigation, during which all the circumstances of what happened should be established."
Besides, according to the rights defender, the authorities had reported that on the day, when the schoolchildren perished, a subdivision of federal forces was shelled near Urus-Martan by militants "with the use of ...