The court ruled that eight relatives of Chechens killed between 2001 and 2003 in Chechnya will receive the Russian compensation payments in relation to Russia's alleged human rights violations during that period, RIA Novosti said Thursday.

Russian security forces in Chechnya and other portions of the North Caucasus were accused by the Council of Europe this year of acts ranging from torture to executions.

Chechnya is a North Caucasus republic that suffered through two separatist wars between the 1990s and the early 2000s.

The relatives set to receive the court-ordered payments had complained to the European Court of Human Rights about the disappearance of their relatives while in Russian custody.

RIA Novosti said those cases are among 46,700 cases sent to the international court during the past decade, all of which name Russia as an alleged rights violator.