ZIMONIN AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA - 59291/13 (Judgment : Violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 - Protection of property (Article 1 para. 1 of Protocol No. 1 - Deprivation of prope...)

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

��������� Branko Lubarda, President, ��������� Pere Pastor Vilanova, ��������� Georgios A. Serghides, judges, and Fatoş Aracı, Deputy Section Registrar,

The case originated in three applications (nos. 59291/13 , 14639/14 and 14582/15) 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�). Their details appear in Appendix below.

Mr Zimonin was represented by Mr I. Vakhitov, a lawyer practising in Russia. Ms Klimova was represented by Mr B. Sokalskiy, a lawyer practising in Russia. Ms Prosvirova and Mr Prosvirov were represented by Ms O. Preobrazhenskaya, a lawyer practising in Russia. The Russian Government (�the Government�) were represented initially by Mr G. Matyushkin, the Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights, and then by Mr A. Fedorov, Head of the Office of the Representative of the Russian Federation to the Court.

On 3 September 2015 and 1 February 2016 the complaints under Article 8 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No.1 to the Convention as regards application no. 59291/13 and applications nos. 14639/14 and 14582/15 were communicated to the Government and the remainder of application no. 59921/13 was declared inadmissible pursuant to Rule 54 � 3 of the Rules of Court.