Legal issuе: the constitutionality of the rule which confers the status of a participant of the liquidation of Chernobyl catastrophe and the appropriate benefits only upon those citizens who were sent to perform such works upon decisions of executive bodies of State power, thus excluding those citizens who were sent to Chernobyl area by decisions of Komsomol committees and approval by the bodies of the Communist Party.
Ratio decidendi: the exclusion in question is based solely on formal grounds; it does not properly take into account the special role which the Communist Party and Komsomol bodies played within the Soviet system of government; therefore, it does not conform to the Constitution.
