Europe court orders Russia to pay Georgia 253 mn euros after 2008 war October 13, 2025 at 11:28PM

The European rights court Tuesday ordered Russia to pay Georgia over a quarter of a billion euros for preventing people from crossing freely into the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia which Moscow recognised as independent after the 2008 war with Tbilisi. The European Court of Human Rights said Russia had committed violations including excessive use of force, ill-treatment, unlawful detention and unlawful restrictions on day-to-day movement across the administrative boundary line between Georgian-controlled territory and the Russian-backed breakaway Georgian regions.