KARGINA AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA - 27670/07 (Judgment : Right to a fair trial : Third Section Committee)

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

��������� Helen Keller, President, ��������� Mar�a El�segui, ��������� Ana Maria Guerra Martins, judges, and Olga Chernishova, Deputy Section Registrar,

the applications (nos. 27670/07 , 41481/09, 33296/10, 59998/10, 69840/10 and 74493/10 ) 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 the various dates by Russian nationals indicated in the appended table (�the applicants�);

the decision to give notice to the Russian Government (�the Government�) of the complaint concerning the alleged lack of public pronouncement of the judgments and declare inadmissible the remainder of the applications;

The issue in this case is whether judgments in the applicant�s civil proceedings were �pronounced publicly�, given that only their operative part was read out in open court.