DUBROVINA AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA - 31333/07 (Judgment : Freedom of assembly and association : Third Section Committee)

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:

��������� Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, President, ��������� Helen Keller, ��������� Mar�a El�segui, judges, and Stephen Phillips, Section Registrar,

The case originated in an application (no. 31333/07 ) against the Russian Federation lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) by four Russian nationals, Ms Marina Alekseyevna Dubrovina (�the first applicant�), Mr Vadim Yevgenyevich Karastelev (�the second applicant�), Ms Tamara Viktorovna Karasteleva (�the third applicant�) and Mr Vladimir Fedorovich Pyankov (�the fourth applicant�; collectively - �the applicants�), on 11 July 2007.

The applicants were represented by lawyers from two non‑governmental organisations, the Memorial Human Rights Centre, based in Moscow, and the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (�EHRAC�), based in London. The Russian Government (�the Government�) were represented initially by Mr G. Matyushkin, the former Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights, and then by his successor in that office, Mr M. Galperin, and Mr A. Fedorov, Head of the Office of the Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights.

On 3 December 2011 the third applicant, Ms Karasteleva, died. Her spouse, who is also the second applicant in this case, expressed the wish to pursue the proceedings in her stead. Subsequently, her son, Mr Dmitriy Karastelev expressed the wish to continue the application in her name, and the second applicant withdrew his earlier request.