1. Pecuniary damage
a. The parties' submissions
82. In respect of pecuniary damage, Mr Trukhanov (case No. 30481/06), Mrs Vechurko (case No. 27833/06) and Mr Pavlov (case No. 25442/06) claimed the respective judgment debts. The remaining applicants' claims may be summarised as follows. If they obtained execution of the judgments, they claimed interest for the period of non-enforcement. If the judgments in their favour had not been executed, they claimed various amounts representing the respective domestic awards plus the interest for the period between the judgments' entry into force and 30 September 2009. In all cases they calculated the interest on the basis of the consumer price index in the Rostov Region in the reference period. All applicants submitted detailed calculation in support of their claims. Some of them provided certificates by the Rostov Regional Department of the Federal Statistics Service specifying the consumer price index in the Rostov Region in the reference period.
83. The Government contested the applicants' method of calculation of the inflationary loss for the following reasons. Firstly, the judgments in the applicants' favour had been quashed in 2005 - 2007, and the applicants could not claim damages for any period posterior to the respective dates of quashing. Secondly, with reference to the information provided by the Federal Statistics Service, i.e. a table of consumer price index in the Russian Federation for 1991 - 2008, they argued that all the applicants except for Mr Dvoretskiy referred to incorrect consumer price indexes. Finally, the judgments debts as well as the inflation losses were not subject to reimbursement, since the respective domestic judgments awarding the applicants with respective sums had been issued with serious jurisdictional errors and the first instance court in all the cases at hand abused its power while examining the applicants' claims. Furthermore, some of the judgments had been executed before quashing.
b. The Court's assessment
84. The Court recalls that the most appropriate form of redress in respect of the violations found would be to put the applicants as far as possible in the position they would have been if the Convention requirements had not been disregarded (see Piersack v. Belgium (Article 50), 26 October 1984, Series A No. 85, p. 16, § 12, and, mutatis mutandis, {Gencel} v. Turkey, No. 53431/99, § 27, 23 October 2003). The Court observes that in several cases at hand the judgments in the applicant's favour had been executed before quashing, while in other cases the domestic awards had remained unenforced. Finally, in the case of Mr Karatayev the amount of the initial judgment debt had been reduced in the proceedings posterior to the quashing. The Court will take these circumstances into account when deciding on damages in each individual case, in accordance with the following methods.
i. As regards the judgment debt
85. Where a domestic judgment in an applicant's favour was executed, the Court does not make any award in respect of the initial judgment debt. (The applicants' claims in respect of interest will be examined below).
86. Where a domestic judgment remained unenforced, the Court notes that the applicants were prevented from receiving the amounts they had legitimately expected to receive under at least one binding and enforceable judgment delivered by domestic courts in their favour. Accordingly, the Court considers appropriate to award the applicants the equivalent in euros of the sums that they would have received if the judgments in their favour had not been quashed (see Bolyukh v. Russia, No. 19134/05, § 39, 31 July 2007). The Court accordingly awards the applicants the equivalent in euros of the unenforced judgment debts.
87. As regards the case of Mr Karatayev (No. 18352/06), the
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