Armenian Chernobyl victims receive compensation worth $10

Regnum, Russia
April 23 2006

“The Armenian government did not adopt state program on aid for
relatives of victims of the Chernobyl tragedy this year, and Ministry
of Labor and Social Affairs believed it to be inexpedient to consider
proposals package of liquidators of the catastrophe’s consequences,”
stated assistant to president of Armenian Chernobyl Union Viktoria
Movsesyan, speaking with a REGNUM correspondent.

According to her, liquidators of consequences of the Chernobyl tragedy
have no special privileges. “They are supplied in the framework of
state order for disabled people. Moreover, privilege of paying only 50%
of price for public utilities is replaced by absolutely inadequate
money compensation worth 4,500 drams ($10),” she stressed. Also,
the assistant of Union president informed, state granted 2151,000
drams ($4780) on the occasion of 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl
NPP tragedy to organize events and to render material assistance
to invalids.

According to Viktoria Movsesyan, more than 400 disabled children
are Union members. They do not have the status of disabled people
and receive medical aid like all other Armenian citizens, despite
the fact, that the Republican Center of Radiation Medicine and Burns
receives medicines, which must be delivered to victims of Chernobyl
tragedy for free. “However, nobody of Chernobyl Union members went
to the law,” stressed Viktoria Movsesyan. April 26 is commemorated
as Memorial Day of Victims of Catastrophe at the Chernobyl NPP.