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Russia slams Strasbourg court for seeking to revise WWII results

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Russia on Monday accused the European Court of Human Rights of going along with people who seek to rehabilitate Nazis by upholding Latvia's appeal in the case of a Soviet World War II veteran.

Russia on Monday accused the European Court of Human Rights of going along with people who seek to rehabilitate Nazis by upholding Latvia's appeal in the case of a Soviet World War II veteran.

Vasily Kononov, 87, who led a group of resistance fighters against Nazi Germany in the Baltic state during World War II, was jailed by Latvia in 1998 after he was convicted of ordering the killing of nine villagers in 1944. He admitted to the killings, but said the dead were Nazi collaborators who were caught in crossfire.

Earlier on Monday, the upper chamber of the European Court of Human Rights upheld the appeal by Latvia against the court's 2008 ruling that the conviction of Kononov was illegal.

"According to our preliminary estimation the issue is about a dangerous precedent, which gives reason to our great concerns," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"The Grand Chamber of the Court in fact has fallen in line with those who strive to revise the results of the World War II and rehabilitate the Nazis and their collaborators," it said.

"We consider the decision of the Grand Chamber... an attempt to put in doubt a range of key political and legal principles, formed on the basis of the results of the World War II and the post-war settlement in Europe," the statement said.

MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti)

 

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