Via BBC:
A European court [the ECHR in Strasbourg] has ordered Russia to pay 277,000 euros (£150,000) in compensation to relatives of a Chechen family shot dead by Russian troops.
Human rights groups say they were innocent civilians executed by a paramilitary police unit.
The court found Russia guilty of violating the European Convention on Human Rights.
It said five members of the Estamirov family had been the victims of unlawful killing by the Russian state.
They had been found shot dead outside their home in the Chechen capital, Grozny, in February 2000, at the height of the second Chechen war.
Amongst the dead were a baby and a heavily pregnant woman.
RFE/RL also has a report.
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