{"id":1035,"date":"2015-10-29T08:54:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T08:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcstaging.co.uk\/ehrac\/?post_type=case-studies&p=1035"},"modified":"2023-10-31T20:14:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:14:04","slug":"gayeva-v-russia","status":"publish","type":"case-studies","link":"http:\/\/ehrac.org.uk\/en_gb\/key-ehrac-cases\/gayeva-v-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Gayeva v Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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Case No. 7946\/08<\/strong>
\nJudgment date: 29 October\u00a02015<\/strong><\/p>\n

The applicant, Ms. Gayeva, was the widow of\u00a0Mr. Lev Gayev, who participated in the cleanup\u00a0operation at the industrial site of Mayak\u00a0power plant between 30 September 1957\u00a0and 31 December 1958 and was exposed\u00a0to radioactive emissions. Mr. Gayev died of\u00a0cancer in 1985, aged 46, when Ms. Gayeva\u00a0was 45 years old.<\/p>\n

In 2005 Ms. Gayeva learned from her friend\u00a0(whose husband had died in 2004) that she\u00a0received monthly compensation for the loss\u00a0of the breadwinner, under the 1991 Federal\u00a0Law \u201cOn Social Protection of Citizens Exposed\u00a0to Radiation as a Result of the Accident at\u00a0PA Mayak of 1957 and Radioactive Waste\u00a0Discharges into the River Techa\u201d. In August\u00a02006 Ms. Gayeva sought to obtain compensation\u00a0from the Ozersk Social Security Office in\u00a0relation to the loss of her husband\u2019s income.\u00a0On 17 October 2006 the Ozersk Town Court\u00a0of the Chelyabinsk region rejected her claim,\u00a0finding, in particular, that she failed to show\u00a0that she had been financially dependent on her\u00a0husband at the time of his death.<\/p>\n

You can read the\u00a0full case summary in the Summer 2016 Bulletin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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