KALYAKINY v ARMENIA - 66654/12 (Violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 - Protection of property : Court (Fourth Section Committee))

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

Anja Seibert-Fohr , President , Armen Harutyunyan, Ana Maria Guerra Martins , judges , and Valentin Nicolescu, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 66654/12 ) against the Republic of Armenia lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") on 30 September 2012 by two Russian nationals, Ms Elena Kalyakina ("the first applicant") and Ms Vera Kalyakina ("the second applicant"), born in 1962 and 1983 respectively (together "the applicants"), who were represented by Mr T. Khurshudyan, a lawyer practising in Yerevan;

the decision to give notice of the complaints concerning the confiscation of the applicants' property to the Armenian Government ("the Government"), represented by their Agent, Mr G. Kostanyan, and subsequently by Mr Y. Kirakosyan, Representative of the Republic of Armenia on International Legal Matters, and to declare inadmissible the remainder of the application;

. On 22 July 2008 the police instituted criminal proceedings against the applicants, mother and daughter originally from Russia, on account of human trafficking. They were suspected of having had brought to Armenia a number of young women from Russia who were then exploited as strippers in various nightclubs in Armenia.