MOSCOW, February 18 - RAPSI. The Lefortovsky District Court in Moscow decided to ask the Justice Ministry on Monday to provide them with a Russian translation of the European Court of Human Rights' (ECHR) decision in the claim regarding the Nord-Ost hostage crisis.

An attack on Moscow's Dubrovka Theater, also known as the Nord-Ost theater, took place on October 23, 2002. A group of 40 terrorists broke into the theater and took hostages, including the women and children who were there watching a musical.

For three days, 912 people were held at gunpoint in the auditorium. The terrorists refused to surrender, so the security forces stormed the building. The terrorists were killed and the surviving hostages were released. However, 130 hostages were also killed in the storm.

The ECHR recognized on December 20, 2011 that the security forces made a series of violations while storming the building, but said the decision to storm was not an abuse of the hostages' rights. The decision to fine the government 1.3 million euro came into effect after the Grand Chamber reviewed the claim in the case.

It became apparent during Monday's hearing that the court never received the results of the Investigative Committee's probe into the Nord-Ost crisis in connection with prominent opposition activist Boris Nemtsov's lawsuit. Nemtsov, who was a State Duma deputy at the time, filed a lawsuit against the officials who organized the storming of Dubrovka.