Legal issue: whether the system of compensations as established by the contested provision should extend to disabled persons from the ranks of the police on the same footing as to those from the ranks of the military, and if not, whether such inequality would be constitutional?

Ratio decidendi: the Court refused to hold the provision in question to be unconstitutional, because its proper constitutional interpretation does not impede giving an analogous compensation to disabled persons from among the police. The Court has motivated this conclusion by saying that the federal legislator must proceed from the principle of equal value of life and health of all the citizens who had suffered from the Chernobyl catastrophe, so that any differences as to the citizens’ rights in this area are admissible only to the extent they are 1) objectively justified and substantiated, and 2) pursue constitutionally significant goals, and the means used to pursue such goals are commensurate to them.