PUKHACHEV v. RUSSIA - 24344/17 (Judgment : Article 6+6-3-c - Right to a fair trial : Third Section Committee)

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

��������� Peeter Roosma, President, ��������� Dmitry Dedov, ��������� Andreas Z�nd, judges, and Olga Chernishova, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 24344/17) 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�) on 4 March 2017 by a Russian national, Mr Igor Yevgenyevich Pukhachev, born in 1980 and detained in Verkhniy Chov (�the applicant�) who was represented by Ms  Y.V. Kovaleva , a lawyer practising in Kazan;

the decision to give notice of the application to the Russian Government (�the Government�), represented initially by Mr M. Galperin, Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights, and then by his successor in that office, Mr M. Vinogradov;

1.  The present case concerns the applicant�s removal from a criminal trial.