OOO MEDIAFOKUS v. RUSSIA - 55496/19 (Judgment : Article 10 - Freedom of expression-{general} : Third Section Committee)

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

��������� Georgios A. Serghides , President , ��������� Jolien Schukking, ��������� Darian Pavli , judges , and Olga Chernishova, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 55496/19) 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 11 October 2019 by a Russian limited liability company, OOO Mediafokus (�the applicant company�), that was represented by Ms S. Kuzevanova, a lawyer practising in Voronezh;

the decision to give notice of the application to the Russian Government (�the Government�), initially represented by Mr M. Galperin, former Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights, and later by his successor in this office, Mr M. Vinogradov;

1.  The case concerns the wholesale blocking of access to a new website of an online media on the grounds that its content �mirrored� the proscribed content on its former website.