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The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:
The case originates in an application (no. 13255/07) against the Russian Federation lodged with the Court under Article 33 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by Georgia on 26 March 2007. The Georgian Government (“the applicant Government”) are represented before the Court by their Agent, Mr Levan Meskhoradze. They were previously represented successively by their former Agents, Mr Besarion Bokhashvili and Mr David Tomadze.
The Russian Government (“the respondent Government”) are represented by their Representative, Mr Georgy Matyushkin. They were previously represented by their former Representative, Ms Veronika Milinchuk.
The applicant Government alleged that the respondent State had permitted or caused the existence of an administrative practice involving, in particular, the arrest, detention and collective expulsion of Georgian nationals from the Russian Federation in the autumn of 2006, entailing a violation of Articles 3, 5, 8, 13 and 18 of the Convention and of Articles 1 and 2 of Protocol No. 1, Article 4 of Protocol No. 4 and Article 1 of Protocol No. 7.
On 13 April 2007 the President of the Chamber decided to communicate the application to the respondent Government, which were invited to submit observations on the admissibility of the complaints.
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