NIKOLAYEVY v. RUSSIA - 49529/10 (Judgment : Violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 - Protection of property (Article 1 para. 1 of Protocol No. 1 - Peaceful enjoyment o...)

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 an application (no. 49529/10 ) 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�) by two Russian nationals, Ms Anastasiya Yuryevna Nikolayeva and Ms Tatyana Alekseyevna Nikolayeva (�the applicants�), on 11 August 2010.

The applicants were represented by Ms L. Lazareva and Ms M. Samorodkina, lawyers practising in Moscow. The Russian Government (�the Government�) were represented by Mr G. Matyushkin, 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 the complaints concerning the transfer of the ownership of the first applicant�s flat to the City of Moscow and the applicants� imminent eviction were communicated to the Government and the remainder of the complaints were declared inadmissible pursuant to Rule 54 � 3 of the Rules of Court.