CEDH · CASELAW;DECISIONS;ADMISSIBILITYCOM;ENG — 13 octobre 2020

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Their personal details appear in the appended table. 2.     The Russian Government ("the Government") were represented initially by Mr G. Matyushkin, the Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights, and then by his successor in that office, Mr M. Galperin. 3.     On various dates between 2011 and 2015 the applicants were criminally prosecuted and convicted of various offences under the Russian legislation in force. The particulars of the relevant domestic proceedings are presented in the appended table. COMPLAINTS 4.     The applicants complained under Article 6 §§ 1 and 3 (d) of the Convention that they were not provided an opportunity to examine the prosecution witnesses during trial. THE LAW 5.     The Court considers that in accordance with Rule 42 § 1 of the Rules of Court, the applications listed in the appended table should be joined. 6.     The respondent Government in their observations argued that applicants had had fair hearings in the determination of the criminal charges against them in accordance with Article 6 § 1 of the Convention. 7.     Certain applicants disagreed, while the others did not provide specific arguments. 8.     The Court has carefully examined the applications listed in the appended table and concluded that, in the light of the Court’s primary concern under Article 6 § 1 to evaluate the overall fairness of the criminal proceedings (see Al-Khawaja and Tahery v. the United Kingdom [GC], nos.   26766/05 and 22228/06, § 118, ECHR 2011, and Schatschaschwili v.   Germany [GC], no.   9154/10, § 101, ECHR 2015), the presumption that in principle the Russian legal system offers robust procedural guarantees securing the right of an accused to examine witnesses testifying against him, ensuring that the reading out of absent witnesses’ testimony is possible only as an exception (see Zadumov v. Russia , no. 2257/12, § 63, 12   December 2017, recently reiterated in Kiba and Others v. Russia (dec.) [Committee], nos. 38047/08 and 2   others, § 16, 17 April 2018), the material in its possession, and in so far as the matters complained of are within its competence, the applications are manifestly ill-founded, and thus must be rejected in accordance with Article   35 §§   3   (a) and 4 of the Convention. For these reasons, the Court, unanimously, Decides to join the applications; Declares the applications inadmissible. Done in English and notified in writing on 5 November 2020.   Olga Chernishova   Darian Pavli   Deputy Registrar   President     APPENDIX   No. Application no. Date of introduction Applicant name Date of birth Place of residence Nationality Represented by Date of the trial and appeal courts’ judgments Convicted of Absent prosecution witness 1 52277/11   19/07/2011 Roman Vasilyevich DEMIN   1983 Kamenskiy   Russian Yekaterina Sergeyevna KRUTIKOVA Neftegorskiy District Court of the Samara Region 11/01/2011   Samara Regional Court 04/03/2011   Convicted of infliction of grievous bodily injuries that led to the victim’s death and robbery     Mr D., Mr   S.   2 6752/12   26/03/2012 Dinmukhamed Mustapayevich YSAKOV   1982 Sosnovyy bor   Kyrgyz St Petersburg City Court 07/07/2011   Supreme Court of Russia 20/10/2011   Convicted of murder   Mr L.   3 66754/12   28/09/2012 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich NIKONOV   1979 Bor   Russian Timiryazevskiy District Court of Moscow 14/03/2012   Moscow City Court 14/06/2012   Convicted of infliction of grievous bodily injuries that lead to the death of the victim     Mr T.   4 68848/12   12/09/2012 Ruslan Rusamovich GALIYEV   1979 Cheboksary   Russian Kalininskiy District Court of Cheboksary of the Chuvash Republic 27/02/2012   Supreme Court of the Chuvash Republic 07/06/2012   Convicted of inducing to and organisation of prostitution in conspiracy   Mrs S., Mrs   G.   5 892/13   12/12/2012 Vitaliy Vladimirovich DASHKOV   1976 Lipetsk   Russian Aleksey Vyacheslavovich SUSHKOV   Lipetsk Regional Court 28/12/2011   Supreme Court of Russia 27/06/2012   Convicted of attempted murder in conspiracy   Mr T.   6 13105/13   18/02/2013 Zakhar Sergeyevich BERESTOVOY   1986 Kochubeyevskoye   Russian Lina Fedorovna MOTCHENKO Khamovnicheskiy District Court of Moscow 13/02/2012   Moscow City Court 20/08/2012   Convicted of attempted drug dealing Mrs P., Mr   M., Mr   N., Mr   S., Mrs   Av.   7 14360/13   09/01/2013 Dmitriy Vladislavovich GLAZYRIN   1970 Kazan   Russian Natalya Yuryevna ZAYNULLINA Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan 17/02/2011   Supreme Court of Russia 18/07/2012   Convicted of organisation of prostitution in conspiracy, abduction, extortion in conspiracy Mrs M.   8 18635/13   25/12/2012 Boymukhamad Saidovich KODIROV   1967 Mariinskiy Posad   Russian Mariinsko-Posadskiy District Court of the Chuvash Republic 23/03/2012   Supreme Court of the Chuvash Republic 28/06/2012   Convicted of preparation for drug dealing Mr B.   9 75293/14   24/11/2014 Artur Anatolyevich SHCHEDRIN   1973 Vladivostok Nataliya Fedorovna SHCHEDRINA Russian   Primorskiy Regional Court 29/10/2013   Supreme Court of Russia 12/08/2014   Convicted of several counts of fraud in conspiracy and participation in a criminal organisation   Mr R., Mr   U., Mr   P.   10 1432/15   16/12/2014 Nina Akhatovna BOGDANOVA   1963 Kostroma   Russian Denis Aleksandrovich ZABOLOTNYY Nagatinskiy District Court of Moscow 10/12/2013   Moscow City Court 18/06/2014   Convicted of several counts of fraud in conspiracy   Mr Y., Mrs   Y., Mrs   P.   11 3305/15   08/12/2014 Igor Fridrikhovich PUZANOV   1975 Kirov   Russian Tsentralnyy District Court of Sochi of the Krasnodar Region 17/12/2013   Krasnodar Regional Court 11/06/2014   Convicted of attempted fraud and fraud Ms Y.   12 10871/15   16/02/2015 Yelizaveta Sergeyevna TISLER   1988 Kingisepp   Russian Yoshkar-Olinskiy Town Court of the Republic of Mari El 26/06/2014   Supreme Court of the Republic of Mari El 18/08/2014   Convicted of fraud in conspiracy Mr T., Mr   M., Mr   J., Mr   K., Mr.   Mat., Mr A., Mr   D., Mr   P., Mr   F.   13 12281/15   27/02/2015 Andrey Germanovich SHISHKANOV   1991 Moscow   Russian Presnenskiy District Court of Moscow 27/06/2014   Moscow City Court 30/10/2014   Convicted of illegal deprivation of liberty, torture, threat of murder and theft in conspiracy Mr T.   14 17287/15   31/03/2015 Zhanna Yanushevna LAKATOSH   1985 Ogarkovo   Stateless   Nevskiy District Court of St Petersburg 04/04/2014   St Petersburg Regional Court 02/10/2014   Convicted of infliction of grievous bodily injuries leading to the death of the victim and attempted theft Mr D., Ms   T., Mr   T.   15 18347/15   03/04/2015 Yelena Yuryevna NAZAROVA Olga Pavlovna TSEYTLINA 1980 Moscow   Russian Ivan Mikhaylovich DYACHENKO Gagarinskiy District Court of Moscow 02/06/2014   Moscow City Court 09/10/2014   Convicted of multiple counts of fraud in conspiracy Mr I., Ms   Y., Ms   K., Mr   K., Ms   Kan., Mr M., Ms   Zh., Ms   M., Ms.   L., Ms   Kur., Mr Kl., Mr   R., Ms   B., Ms   S., Ms   Kon., Ms Ch.   16 23551/15   27/04/2015 Aleksandr Valentinovich POLYANSKIY   1973 Irkutsk   Russian Viktoriya Viktorovna ARZHAYEVA Muscovskiy Town Court of the Kemerovo Region 07/08/2014   Kemerovo Regional Court 28/10/2014   Convicted of murder Mr Sh.   17 56844/15   03/11/2015 Aleksey Anatolyevich STEPANOV   1977 Tyumen   Russian Zheleznodorozhnuy Town Court of the Krasnoyarsk Region 01/08/2014   Krasnoyarsk Regional Court 18/06/2015   Convicted of several counts of attempted drug dealing in conspiracy and illegal storage of drugs Mr S.   18 61560/15   30/11/2015     Anton Sergeyevich CHIKISHEV   1980 Sochi   Russian Justice of the Peace of the 90 th Court Circuit of the Adlerskiy District of Sochi 26/03/2015   Adlerskiy District Court of Sochi of the Krasnodar Region 29/04/2015   Convicted of malicious evasion of payment of maintenance allowance for a child Ms B.   19 5010/16   16/12/2015     Natalya Pavlovna VELICHKO   1956 Chelyabinsk   Russian Troitskiy District Court of the Chelyabinsk Region 13/0/2015   Chelyabinsk Regional Court     17/06/2015   Convicted of numerous counts of abuse of power Ms D.O., Mr A., Ms   B., Mr   I.A., Ms   A., Ms   D.M., Ms Y.M., Mr I.D., Ms   P., Mr   Y.V.